how big does a land mass have to be to NOT be considered an island?
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Since most geographers consider Australia as its own continent (though some consider it part of a chain of islands known as Indonesia), the real defining limit on what is considered an island can be found with the earth's largest; Greenland is considered the planet's largest island, therefore if it is larger than Greenland, it is a continent.\n\nAlso, if the theory of continental drift is true (and it more than likely is), several of our modern continents, like South America, Africa, and North America, that are connected to others at the present date were once surrounded at all sides by water. Geologists still consider their past forms as continents, so I suppose their opinions could be accepted as experts'.\n\nAlso, according to continental drift, the modern country of India was once its own island that broke free from Antarctica about 120 million years ago, headed northward over the course of about 70 million years, and slammed into modern day Asia, forming the Himalayan Mountains. Geologists consider the colliding country a 'sub-continent'. Being only 1.5 times the size of Greenland, the world's largest island, and considered a sub-continent implies that this is where the state of being anything other than an island begins and being an island ends.
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Surface Area: Land area, about 148,300,000 sq km, or about 30% of total surface area; water area, about 361,800,000 sq km, or about 70% of total surface area.
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Alaska is the biggest state in terms of size of land.
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land mark is Wat it is
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no. The majority of scientists define the main requirement of a planet to be it's gravatational domination of it's surroundings; something pluto and 2003 UB313 do not do; in fact, both Pluto and 2003 UB313 aren't even the size of earth's moon. The main reason there is even controversy on this topic is because Americans were the ones who discovered Puto and the other icy rock and wanted to have some kind of historical placement in the field of Astronomy.
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No it's not an island, it's still part of England.
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USA:\n9,631,418 km²\n3,718,711 sq mi  \n\nEurope:\n10,390,000 km²\n4,010,000 sq mi\n\nI guess if you subtract GB from Europe, it will still be larger than USA\n\np/s: nem0nem, the area of europe that you gave is not continental europe but the total area of political boundary of countries in europe. sontinental europe means the size of europe itself, and is stated in wikipedia as 4,010,000 sq mi.nevertheless, I'm not quite sure whether the questions asks continental USA as in continental north america or just the USA.but anyways, the real answer to the question is:\n"Continental Europe is slightly larger than USA, but Continental North America is larger than Continental Europe."
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A Key is one Island in a chain of Islands that is close to a larger land mass.\n\nAn Island is any mass of land that is surrounded on all sides by water. \n\nThus a Key is always and Island but and Island is not always a Key, got it?
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This is a guinnes book record listed in 1966 that has not been broken.  The largest land holder is the United States Government.  See below link.\n\nhttp://www.ncrec.state.nc.us/bulletin/vol6-4bulletin/land_values.htm
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Probably not, since I don't know what you mean. Is that a real island or like a metaphor or something...
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Of course not.\n\nYard is for length while /square meter is for area.
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The West Indies is not actually a country. West Indies refers to the Caribbean islands as a whole.
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The Carribean is an archipelago of many islands, some big and some small. Not all of which are inhabited. Off the top of my head I cannot remember the names of any which arn't inhabited, but basically they would just be too small to be inhabited.\n\nSome of the islands would just be sand and a few palm trees, nothing substantial enough to build or live off.
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Uh... it contains mass but doesn't have the act of the pull of the earth?
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Earth has a surface area of 196,940,400 square miles, slightly less than a perfect ball with a diameter of 7913.5 miles The surface area of the seven continents and all the islands of the world is about 57 million miles, while the total area of the six habitable continents (Antarctica excluded) is around 52 million square miles. \n\nThe human population on earth has crossed six billion. If we distribute all the exposed land evenly among all mankind, 133 people would have to share one square mile. What that means is that every single person on Earth, man woman and child would have close to five acres of land for his or her use. More precisely, each person would get 209,000 square feet of land, or a square plot of land 457 feet on each side. \n\nNot all this land can be used beneficially however. A significant portion of the Earth's exposed land is unhabitable or cannot be used for any agricultural purpose. Large portions lie in the far north. Large portions are extremely arid. Large portions are very mountainous. In sum, only about one fourth of all the land on earth, or somewhat more than 12 million square miles, is arable. \n\nToday, over half of the arable land in the world is in fact not under cultivation. Bringing the unused land into service in many cases would require huge investments of money and effort, and would do considerable damage to the environment. For example, only about 28% of the arable land on the African continent is used for growing crops. Immense tracts of forests or jungles would have to be cleared to bring the rest of the arable land on that continent to productive use. \n\nThus, only about one eighth of each imaginary plot of land distributed to each person is land which is under cultivation. In effect, each person has a piece of land about 26,000 square feet (a square 161 feet on each side or just a bit more than ½ an acre) at his or her disposal on which to grow all that he or she needs.
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About 5 million square kilometers are marked as agricultural, Europe is 9,938,000 sq km, so that makes about 50% of the total surface!
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Technically to be a peninsula, it has to be connected to the mainland by an isthmus. NJ probably doesnt fall in that category.