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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.
Indonesia is the largest island country in the world. The total land area is 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 sq mi), Including 6,159,032 square kilometres (2,378,016 sq mi) of inland seas (straits, bays, and other bodies of water). [3]
Bir Tawil (Egyptian Arabic: بير طويل, romanized: Bīr Ṭawīl, lit. 'tall water well', [biːɾ tˤɑˈwiːl]) is a 2,060 km 2 (795.4 sq mi) area of land along the border between Egypt and Sudan, which is uninhabited and claimed by neither country.
Earth jurisprudence is a philosophy of law and human governance that is based on the fact that humans are only one part of a wider community of beings and that the welfare of each member of that community is dependent on the welfare of the Earth as a whole.
Estimates of world population by their nature are an aspect of modernity, possible only since the Age of Discovery.Early estimates for the population of the world [10] date to the 17th century: William Petty, in 1682, estimated the world population at 320 million (current estimates ranging close to twice this number); by the late 18th century, estimates ranged close to one billion (consistent ...
The original 2013 map by Ken Myers, with the interior of the circle inverted. A Valeriepieris circle [1] [2] [3] is a figure drawn on the Earth's surface such that the majority of the human population lives within its interior.
The 2006 Yogyakarta earthquake (also known as the Bantul earthquake) occurred at 05:53 local time on 27 May with a moment magnitude of 6.4 and a maximum MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging) in the Yogyakarta region of Java, Indonesia.
This Earth of Mankind is the first book in Pramoedya Ananta Toer's epic quartet called Buru Quartet, first published by Hasta Mitra in 1980.The story is set at the end of the Dutch colonial rule and was written while Pramoedya was imprisoned on the political island prison of Buru in eastern Indonesia.