Map by Chris Stephens, from naturalearthdata.com

While I’m sure you know the Pacific Ocean is big, I’d say there’s a good chance you hadn’t realized how big, until you look at the map above. As difficult as it may be to believe, the Pacific Ocean is larger than the landmass of every single continent and island combined.

In numbers:

The Pacific Ocean covers: 165.25 million square kilometers

The Earth’s Land Mass covers: 148.94 million square kilometers

And in case you were wondering, Chris has used the Fuller (or Dymaxion) projection to preserve the relative size and shape of continents.

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