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Question
What is the size of the Earth?
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Solution
Its equatorial diameter is 12,756 km and the polar diameter is 12,713 km. Its total area is 51.1 crore sq. km. The average distance between the Sun and the Earth is 14,88,00,000 km. No other planet has life. Its circumference is about 40,000 km.
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