Thursday, January 5, 2012

An overview of the Earth

Our earth has only 29.1% land area i.e. 148,647,000 Sq. Km which suitable for living. More than 70% of our land is occupied with water area. The total size of Land’s water area is 361,419,000 Sq. Km which is about 70.9%. More interestingly from such a huge quantity of water only 3% of water is drinkable and clean and rest 97% water is salty and not clean. Other facts and figures regarding earth are listed here:

· The estimated age of the earth is near 4.6 billion years.

· The earth’s total surface area is near to 510,066,000 Sq. Km

· Total ocean area of earth is near to 335,258,000 Sq. Km

· The earth’s Weight (Mass) is approximately near to 5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons

· The earth orbits around sun at 66,700 mph, 107,320 km per hour and he earth complete its one round and orbit the Sun every (365.5.45.46) i.e. 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes and 46 seconds.


The pie chart shows in blue color that our earth have 71% of Water area and soil color representing the land area which is 29% of earth.

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