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Largest landmass in the solar system at 460 million sq km - larger than all of the dry land on Earth combined. | |
Even though Mars is only about 1/3 the size of Earth in surface area, the actual landmass is about the same as Earth's total, since the Earth is about 2/3 covered in water. | |
This quiz implies current day. Pangea hasn't existed since about 300 mya (million years ago), and the theorized other supercontinents are even older. | |
While this is the smallest planet, it is still a larger landmass than the largest one on Earth. | |
This quiz implies current day. Gondwana hasn't existed since about 184 mya (million years ago). Otherwise you'd be able to drive from Lima to Sydney - the long way. | |
This quiz implies current day. Laurasia hasn't existed since about 55 mya (million years ago). Otherwise, you'd be able to drive from Los Angeles to Beijing - the long way. | |
Part of a larger continental landmass - though often considered a continent itself, bordered by oceans, mountain ranges, an inland sea, and an isthmus, rather than pure water. | |
Earth's moon, at 27% of the diameter of the Earth, has a mere 7% of the surface area. This equates to a little more than the area of Asia. | |
This is part of a larger continental landmass - though often considered a continent, bordered by seas and an isthmus, rather than purely by water. | |
This is part of a larger continental landmass - though often considered a continent, bordered by sea and an isthmus, rather than pure water. | |
This is part of a larger continental landmass - though often considered a continent, bordered by sea and an isthmus, rather than pure water. | |
This is part of a larger continental landmass - though often politically considered a continent, bordered by oceans, mountain ranges, inland sea, rather than purely water. | |
Though Oceania is sometimes considered a continent, it is actually a grouping of the continent/island of Australia with several other islands in neighboring regions. | |
Australasia is not a contiguous landmass, it is a region of Oceania, comprising several islands, including 4 on this quiz. | |
_Temporary_ ice sheets don't count, or we'd call it Pangea every winter. Though we do count the opposite pole's _permanent_ ice shelf, which joins otherwise non-contiguous lands. | |
#21 (106,000 sq km) The nation of Cuba is slightly larger than #20 on this list, but the main island known as Cuba is actually slightly smaller. | |
#22 (103,000 sq km) Iceland just missed the mark on this quiz - maybe if they built a landbridge to Greenland, then they'd be up there. | |
This is the smallest landmass with a building on it, at 46m x 16m, or < 0.001 km^2. | |
As the youngest of the Hawaiian islands, even at 10,000 ft from the floor below, Lo`ihi has not yet risen above the sea; So it has zero landmass, for another 10,000 yrs or so. | |
While the largest planet in the solar system, it actually has no landmass - it's a gas giant. Under all of that dense gas, at its core, there is an ocean of liquid metal hydrogen. | |
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