Sentence examples for total land surface from inspiring English sources

Africa, the second largest continent (after Asia), covering about one-fifth of the total land surface of the Earth.

Almost one-third of the total land surface of Egypt consists of Nubian sandstone, which extends over the southern sections of both the Eastern and Western deserts.

Just over half China's population (54%) live in urban areas, which represent just 2% of the total geographic footprint of the nation, with largely unpopulated regions making up 39% of the total land surface area.

While India has an urbanisation level of 32%, its urban areas represent only 1% of the total land surface of the country, but only 5% of the country is unpopulated – a much lower percentage the other three global regions.

In statistical terms, that territory covers five million square miles (about a twelfth of the total land surface of the globe) and stretches from the Arctic to Central Asia, the Urals to the Sea of Japan.

Pastures occupy around 27% of the total land surface of Turkey.

Hypsometric zone >1000 m due to the very small fund of agricultural land in spite of having very few inhabitants, the population density is high, for e.g. in hypsometric zone 1200 1500 m in 2011 lived 10,298 inh, while total agricultural land surface of classes 1 4 is 8.38 km2 (Fig. 2; Table 2).

The aggregated share of these three types of land uses sums up to 85% of the total land and freshwater surfaces of the 24 countries of Europe assessed by the EEA (2006).

The total land area that contributes surface runoff to a river or lake is called a watershed, drainage basin, or catchment area.

Validity of the chloride mass balance (CMB) method relies on a good quantification of the total chloride input to the land surface.

The Asutifi District is one of the smallest in the Brong Ahafo Region with a total of 117 settlements and land surface area of 1500 km2 (sq.km) (Government of Ghana 2009).