Sentence examples for earth area from inspiring English sources

The Chinese call the basin Tianfu Zhi Guo, meaning "Heaven on Earth". Area 188,000 square miles (487,000 square km).

Travelers who ventured beyond Warsaw, Kraków, and the "black earth" area of Mazovia, thence toward the Pripet Marshes, might not know when they left Polish lands and entered those of the tsar.

The area of the Jalisco plate is 46,291 km2 or 0.00908%% of the Earth (in the calculation of area I have assumed an Earth area of 510 Mm2).

We have already degraded 2 billion hectares of usable soil, about 15percentt of the earth's land area, and roughly 30percentt of the world's crop land has been rendered unproductive.

Take for instance the vast boreal forest region of northern Canada and Russia, which covers more than 10percentt of the earth's land area.

Users living on less than 1percentt of the earth's land area are expected to generate around 60percentt of mobile traffic by 2016, the company says.

Agriculture and urbanization currently account for 43% of the earth's land area (Vitousek et al. 1997; Foley et al. 2011; Barnosky et al. 2012), and much of the remaining area is interlaced with networks of roads (Barnosky et al. 2012).

The other half ("unused productive land") includes pristine forests (c.6 Mm; 1 Mm = 10 m × 10 m = 10 m = 1 million square kilometers; 6 Mm are approximately 4.6% of the earth's land area excluding Greenland and Antarctica), including tropical rainforests as well as all other forests with (almost) no signs of human use [53] (most of the latter in boreal regions).

The Kuban River region, a fertile black-earth area, is one of the chief granaries of Russia.

Around the southern end is the Khanka Lowland, a rich black-earth area with some of the best soils in eastern Siberia.

But people use a fairly small portion of the earth's available land area, and climate change (initially, anyway) will have relatively moderate or even benign effects on some places.