🌊 HOW MUCH OF EARTH IS OCEAN?
PAGE 1 OF 5, MOST OF THE SURFACE IS SEA
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ABOUT SEVEN TENTHS WET, THREE TENTHS DRY
Satellite photographs show Earth as a blue marble because oceans dominate the view, roughly seven parts ocean to three parts land by area. All continents together would fit inside the Pacific Basin with room to spare. That ratio matters for weather: most solar heat enters through water surfaces that store and move energy differently than rock and soil.
⚡ DID YOU KNOW?
The Southern Ocean wraps Antarctica as one continuous ring, there is really one world ocean chopped into named slices for maps.
71%!
GLOBE
🌍 Disk view = mostly blue
🏝️ Land clusters mid-latitudes
🏝️ Land clusters mid-latitudes
PACIFIC
🌊 Largest single basin
📏 Wider than all land combined
📏 Wider than all land combined