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Sargasso Sea – 3.5 million km 2 (1.4 million sq mi) South China Sea – 3.5 million km 2 (1.4 million sq mi) Weddell Sea – 2.8 million km 2 (1.1 million sq mi) Caribbean Sea – 2.754 million km 2 (1.063 million sq mi) Mediterranean Sea – 2.510 million km 2 (0.969 million sq mi) Gulf of Guinea – 2.35 million km 2 (0.91 million sq mi)
The BBC style holds that "there is no acceptable ... 0.919 mi) in length, slightly less than the 1,760 yards (1,609 m; 5,280 ft) of the modern international mile ...
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area. This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies, ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories.
Mexico – United States: 3,141 km (1,952 mi) (Mexico–United States border) Longest single segments of land borders: Kazakhstan – Russia : 6,846 km (4,254 mi)
Strabo noted that the distance between Rhodes and Alexandria is 3,750 stadia, and reported Posidonius's estimate of the Earth's circumference to be 180,000 stadia or 18,000 mi (29,000 km). [16] Pliny the Elder mentions Posidonius among his sources and—without naming him—reported his method for estimating the Earth's circumference.
Many states use township as a governmental level between county and municipality. Most states have counties with unincorporated areas (no municipal government). Municipal governments are called cities, towns, villages, boroughs, and townships, and can form 1-3 layers of government.
Using an interval of 30 mi (50 km), the length is about 2,100 mi (3,400 km). The coastline paradox states that a coastline does not have a well-defined length. Measurements of the length of a coastline behave like a fractal , being different at different scale intervals (distance between points on the coastline at which measurements are taken).
This is the list of countries and other inhabited territories of the world by total population, based on estimates published by the United Nations in the 2024 revision of World Population Prospects. It presents population estimates from 1950 to the present. [2]