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The circumference of the earth at the equator is about 40,075 kilometres. People vary greatly in height. Let me suggest an average height of, say, 137 centimetres. Then the number of people would be 40,075 km / 137 cm or about 39,000,000. About the population of Poland.

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Assuming the average person is around 5.5 feet tall, it would take approximately 131,000,000 people lying head to toe to form a human chain long enough to stretch around the world's circumference.

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One, Gov. Chris Christy.

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