matepot exists to promote international harmony through family friendship. We hope that as individuals learn more about each other across boundaries of nationhood and culture so we will come to realize that despite superficial peculiarities we are all more alike than different.

The country factfile provides a starting point for this journey of discovery in the form of a growing database of facts and figures about different countries.

The World in numbers

Superficial area: 510,000,000 km²
Land surface: 149,000,000 km²
Water surface: 361,000,000 km²
Equatorial circumference: 40,077 km
Meridional circumference: 40,009 km
Volume of the Earth: 1,080,000,000,000 km³
Mass: 5,980,000,000,000,000,000,000 tonnes

Population

The World: 6,450,000,000
Asia: 3,800,000,000
Africa: 890,000,000
Europe: 710,000,000
North America: 515,000,000
South America: 371,000,000
Oceania 35,800,000

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "World" retrieved Aug 29 2007.