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Large Political Map
of the World


Large Political Map of the World

Large Political Map of the World
Note 1
Boundary representation is not necessarily authoritative.

Note 2
Twenty-one of twenty-eight Antarctic consultative nations have made no claims
to Antarctic territory (although Russia and the United States have reserved the right to do so)
and they do not recognize the claims of the other nations.
 
Area
Land: 148.94 million sq km
Water: 361.132 million sq km
Total: 510.072 million sq km
70.9% of the world's surface
is water and 29.1% is land.
 
Area - Comparative
Land area about 16 times
the size of the United States
 
Elevation extremes
Lowest point:
Bentley Subglacial Trench
-2,540 meters
Highest point:
Mount Everest
8,850 meters
Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the lowest ocean point, lying 10,924 meters below the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
 
Population
(July 2011 estimate)
6,928,198,253
 
Age structure
(2011 estimate)
0-14 years: 26.3%
15-64 years: 65.9%
65 years and over: 7.9%
 
Median age
(2009 estimate)
Male: 27.7 years
Female: 29 years
 
Life expectancy at birth
(2011 estimate)
Male: 65.21 years
Female: 69.05 years
Total population: 67.07 years
 
Internet Users
(2010)
2.1 billion
 
Labor force by occupation
Agriculture: 36.6%
Services: 41.9%
Industry: 21.5%
 
Languages
(2009 estimate)
Mandarin Chinese - 12.44
Spanish - 4.85%
English - 4.83%
Arabic - 3.25%
Hindi - 2.68%
Bengali - 2.66%
Portuguese - 2.62%
Russian - 2.12%
Japanese - 1.8%
Standard German - 1.33%
Javanese - 1.25%
 
World Religions
(2009 estimate)
Christians - 33.35%
(of which Roman Catholics 16.83%,  Protestants 6.08%,  Orthodox 4.03%,  Anglicans 1.26%)
Muslim - 22.43% Sikh - 0.36% Other religions - 11.17%
Hindu - 13.78% Jewish - 0.21% Non-religious - 9.42%
Buddhist - 7.13% Baha'i - 0.11% Atheists - 2.04%
 
 

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