Numbers…

This was inspired from the July issue of Reader’s Digest which had some interesting statistics. I did some googling to find some more interesting numbers & facts and because I've been watching the BBC series Planet Earth, I decided to focus my numbers about the earth! Enjoy!


8,749
The height in feet of the highest point in Texas, Guadalupe Peak.

20,320
The height in feet of the highest point in North American, Mount McKinley (Denali).

29,028
The height in feet of the highest point in the world, Mount Everest.

1,312
The lowest point on land (in feet below sea level), the Dead Sea.

36, 198
The lowest point in the Earth’s surface (in feet below sea level), the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

58
The number of U.S. national parks – all of which should be on your list of things to see!

2
The percentage of the earth’s surface covered in rainforest.

50
The percentage of all the species in the world, that resides only in the rainforests.

1,750,000
The number of species have been formally described and given official names. (The estimated number including undescribed species is many times that).

136
The highest temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in Libya, Africa, 1922.

-128.6
The lowest temperature in degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in Vostok, Antarctica, 1983.

Now…

195
If you count Taiwan. Some don't, like China.

122
Number of "electoral democracies" in the world.

27
The number of recognized "conflicts," including wars, going on right now.

0.2
In square miles, the Vatican City is the smallest country in the world.

6,591,027
In square miles, Russia is the largest country in the world.

7,000
The estimated number of languages in the world.

1,052,000,000
The number of first- and second- language speakers of Mandarin worldwide.

6,772,364,200
The population of the earth as of Thursday, June 11, 2009, 1:17pm.