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Because of the total land area.
Hmmm... The total surface area of the Earth would be 510,072,000 km², this is including both the land and ocean. However, the total surface area of land on Earth is 148,940,000 km². That is around 29.2 % land and 70.8% ocean. To put things into perspective, the total surface area of the Earth is equivilant to 97,457,777,777.77 football fields (I think...) Anyway, I hope that helps.
Maldives is about 99% water and total land area is about 300km
China covers an area of 3,705,407 square miles making it the second largest country in the world by land area. They have a population of 1.3 billion people.
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Total Land area of the Philippines :298,170 square kilometers
Russia is the largest country in the northern hemisphere (and the world) with a total land area of 17,075,400 square kilometers (6,592,800 square miles).
The area of Africa is about 30.2 million km² (11.7 million sq miles) This means it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area.
The total land area of Tajikistan is 141,510 km2.
Find the total land area of Belarus.
The total land area of Belarus is 207,600 sq km.
USA is in 4th position after Russia, China and Canada in terms of area.