total: 510.072 million sq km
land: 148.94 million sq km - 57.51 million square miles
water: 361.132 million sq km
note: 70.8% of the world's surface is water, 29.2% is land

Land use:
	arable land: 10.73% (5.75 million square miles?)
	permanent crops: 1%
	other: 88.27% (2001)

	Irrigated land: 2,714,320 sq km (1998 est.)


population ESTIMATE:  6,379,157,361 (July 2004 est.)
(this includes possible errors of up to 38% in underdeveloped nations such as
Nigria, a more reasonable estimate based on purposely inflated figures
would be closer to 5 billion.)   There is a tendency for environmental extremists
to inflate these numbers to enhance the myth of overpopulation, resource
depletion and excessive pollution caused by mankind. 

In reality, less than 2% of the world's land masses, excluding Antartica, is inhabited.

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/xx.html

Languages: 
Chinese, Mandarin 14.37%, Hindi 6.02%, English 5.61%, 
Spanish 5.59%, Bengali 3.4%, Portuguese 2.63%, Russian 2.75%, 
Japanese 2.06%, German, Standard 1.64%, Korean 1.28%, French 1.27% (2000 est.)
note: percents are for "first language" speakers only