{"id":2499,"date":"2011-02-25T05:38:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2011-02-25T05:38:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T13:38:34","slug":"the-earth-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2499","title":{"rendered":"THE EARTH Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: COMIC SANS ms;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/yellow.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"arrow\" width=\"7\" height=\"11\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: COMIC SANS ms;\"> <strong>THE EARTH<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,courier,courier new;\"> <strong>Estimated Weight (mass)<\/strong><br \/>\n(5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/dotclear.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dot\" vspace=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Estimated Age<\/strong> 4.6 billion years<br \/>\n<strong>Current Population<\/strong> 6,446,131,714<br \/>\n<strong>Surface Area<\/strong> (510,066,000 sq km)<br \/>\n<strong>Land Area<\/strong> (148,647,000 sq km) <strong>29.1%<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ocean Area<\/strong> (335,258,000 sq km)<br \/>\n<strong>Total Water Area<\/strong> (361,419,000 sq km)  <strong>70.9%<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Type of Water<\/strong> (97% salt), (3% fresh)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/dotclear.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dot\" vspace=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Circumference <\/strong> at the equator (40,066 km)<br \/>\n<strong>Circumference <\/strong> at the poles (39, 992 km)<br \/>\n<strong>Diameter <\/strong> at the equator (12,753 km)<br \/>\n<strong>Diameter <\/strong> at the poles (12,710 km)<br \/>\n<strong>Radius <\/strong> at the equator (6,376 km)<br \/>\n<strong>Radius <\/strong> at the poles (6,355 km)<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/dotclear.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dot\" vspace=\"2\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Orbit Speeds<\/strong> The earth orbits the Sun at<br \/>\n(66,700 mph), (107,320 km per hour)<br \/>\n<strong>Sun Orbit<\/strong> The earth orbits the Sun every 365 days, 5 hours, 48  minutes and 46 seconds<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/dotclear.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dot\" vspace=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>To convert km (kilometers) to miles,  multiply kilometers by:  0.621371<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/dotclear.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dot\" vspace=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<em>To convert sq km (kilometers) to sq miles, multiply kilometers by:  0.386102<\/em> <\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldatlas.com\/text\/dotclear.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dot\" vspace=\"6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE EARTH Estimated Weight (mass) (5,940,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons) Estimated Age 4.6 billion years Current Population 6,446,131,714 Surface Area (510,066,000 sq km) Land Area (148,647,000 sq km) 29.1% Ocean Area (335,258,000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=2499\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231,212],"tags":[6694,7831],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-know","category-gk-quiz","tag-the-earth","tag-the-earth-facts","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}