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How many square kilometers is Antarctica?

14,000,000 square kilometers

Background

Antarctica covers about 14,000,000 square kilometers of land. That is nearly twice the size of Australia. 98 percent of it is buried under thick ice. Despite the cold it officially counts as the world's largest desert.

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