Earth
Third planet from the Sun in the Solar System
Also known as Planet Earth · World · Mother Earth · The Blue Planet · The Earth
- Mass
- 5,972.37 yottagram
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- 5,972.37 yottagram
- Radius
- 6,378.14 km
- , 6,371 km
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Sources- 1.“Earth Fact Sheet”nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.htmlRetrieved 2018-04-25
- , 6,356.8 km
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- Diameter
- 12,742 km
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- 12,742 km
- Orbital period
- 365.2564 days
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- 365.2564 days
- Semi-major axis
- 1 AU
- , 150M km
- Rotation period
- 24 h
- , 86,164.1 s
- Distance from Earth
- 0 km
- Eccentricity
- 0.01671
Overview
Over time
Dated values recorded in Wikidata, each with its own source
Related
All data
577 statements · 19% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Lowest point
- Challenger Deep elevation: -10,994 m
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Sources- 1.abstractsearch.agu.org/meetings/2011/FM/OS13B-1517.htmlRetrieved 2017-01-08
- Galathea Depth(until 1952) elevation: -10,540 m
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Sources- 1.archive.org/stream/galatheadeepseae00dans/galatheadeepseae00dans_djvu.txtRetrieved 2018-07-05
- Vityas Deep 1(since 1957) elevation: -10,950 m
- Challenger Deep elevation: -10,994 m
- Shape
- geoid statement is subject of: figure of the Earth
- oblate spheroid sourcing circumstances: approximately · statement is subject of: spherical Earth
- ball sourcing circumstances: approximately
- Type of orbit
- heliocentric orbit statement is subject of: orbit of Earth
- Flattening
- 0.003353
- Highest point
- Mount Everest elevation: 8,848 m
- Chimborazo elevation: 6,263.47 m
- Mauna Kea elevation: 4,205 m
- Dissolved
- unknown statement is subject of: future of Earth
- Population
- 8.12B(May 9, 2025)
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- 8.03B(April 19, 2023)
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- 8B(November 15, 2022) statement is subject of: Q115252651
- 7.97B(August 22, 2022)
- 7.94B(March 31, 2022)
- 7.83B(December 7, 2020)
- 7.66B(October 11, 2018)
- 7.65B(September 26, 2018)
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- 7.53B(September 5, 2017)
- 7.51B(June 7, 2017)
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- 7.48B(January 5, 2017)
- 7.46B(November 12, 2016)
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- 7.39B(January 5, 2016)
- 7.36B(August 12, 2015)
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- 7.2B(December 31, 2013)
- 7B(February 20, 2012)
- 7B(October 31, 2011)
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- 6.34B(2005)
- 6.07B(2000)
- 6B(October 12, 1999)
- 5.67B(1995)
- 5.26B(1990)
- 5B(July 7, 1987)
- 4.83B(1985)
- 4.43B(1980)
- 4.07B(1975)
- 4B(1974)
- 3.69B(1970)
- 3.33B(1965)
- 3.02B(1960)
- 2.76B(1955)
- 2.52B(1950)
- 2B(1927)
- 1.65B(1900)
- 1.5B(1893)
- 1.26B(1850)
- 1B(1810)
- 791M(1750)
- 400M(1000)
- 285M(0001)
- 7,000,000(-4000)
- 50M(-1000)
- 100M(-0500)
- 8.12B(May 9, 2025)
- Founded
- 4540000th millennium BCE statement is subject of: age of the Earth · statement disputed by: Young Earth creationism · statement supported by: radiometric dating
- Volume as quantity
- 1.08T cubic kilometre
- Argument of periapsis
- 114.2078 degree
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Sources- 1.nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.htmlRetrieved 2015-10-22
- 114.2078 degree
- Mean anomaly
- 358.617 degree
- Unicode character
- 🜨 statement is subject of: 🜨
- ♁ statement is subject of: Earth symbol
- 🌎
- 🌍
- 🌏
- 🗺
- ☷
- ♁
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- 🜨
- Coordinates of northernmost point
- 90.0000°N, 0.0000°E statement is subject of: North Pole
- Coordinates of southernmost point
- 90.0000°S, 0.0000°E statement is subject of: South Pole
- Has characteristic
- mass of the Earth
- Earth's magnetic field
- planetary habitability
- geologic activity
- narrative location statement is subject of: Earth in fiction
- Catalog code
- 806.4616.0110 catalog: Encyclopedia Galactica
- Different from
- Terra criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Terra
- Erde criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Erde
- Earth criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: earth
- Jorda criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: jorda
- Eerd criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: eerd
- Tellus criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Tellus
- land
- Name in kana
- ちきゅう revised hepburn romanization: chikyū
- Number of out-of-school children
- 264M(2015)
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Sources- 1.“Education : Number of out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age”data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=3372Retrieved 2018-04-25
- 263M(2014)
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Sources- 1.“Education : Number of out-of-school children, adolescents and youth of primary and secondary school age”data.uis.unesco.org/index.aspx?queryid=3372Retrieved 2018-04-25
- 265M(2013)
- 266M(2012)
- 274M(2011)
- 281M(2010)
- 291M(2009)
- 294M(2008)
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- 305M(2007)
- 324M(2006)
- 333M(2005)
- 336M(2004)
- 343M(2003)
- 360M(2002)
- 371M(2001)
- 374M(2000)
- 379M(1999)
- 264M(2015)
- Longitude of ascending node
- 348.7394 degree
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Sources- 1.nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/earthfact.htmlRetrieved 2014-04-08
- 348.7394 degree
- Demonym
- Earthling grammatical number: singular · language: English
- أرضي vocalized name: أَرْضِيّ
- Terrien language: French
- Terran language: English
- Erdling language: German
- földlakó language: Hungarian
- Terano language: Esperanto
- Terrestre language: Italian
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- terrícola language: Spanish
- Dünyalı language: Turkish
- Ziemianin language: Polish
- землянин applies to part: masculine · grammatical number: singular · language: Russian
- землянка applies to part: feminine · grammatical number: singular · language: Russian
- земляне grammatical number: plural
- заминиҳо applies to part: plural
- ชาวโลก
- Aardbewoner
- Earthman grammatical number: singular · grammatical gender: masculine
- Earthwoman grammatical gender: feminine · grammatical number: singular
- 地球人
- 地球人
- 地球人
- terráqueo
- terrestre
- terráqueo
- terrestre
- Ziemianka applies to part: feminine · grammatical number: singular
- terrícola
- Earthperson
- terrestre
- terrícola
- 地球人 name in kana: ちきゅうじん · revised hepburn romanization: chikyūjin
- pozemšťan grammatical gender: masculine
- pozemšťanka grammatical gender: feminine
- 지구인 revised romanization: jigu-in
- zemljanin grammatical gender: masculine
- Bhumi
- Gaia
- পৃথিবীবাসি
- terrícola
- Zemljan grammatical number: singular · grammatical gender: masculine
- زمین
- Zemljanka grammatical number: singular · grammatical gender: feminine
- jordboer grammatical gender: masculine · grammatical number: singular
- نړیوال
- Ziemianie grammatical number: plural
- पृथ्वीवासी
- انق بومي
- anak bumi
- jordbo grammatical number: singular · language: Swedish
- jordbor grammatical number: plural · language: Swedish
- Opposite of
- sky applies to part: Earth
- outer space applies to part: universe
- Magnetic moment
- 78400000Q joule per tesla
- Maximum temperature record
- 56.7°C(July 10, 1913) location: Furnace Creek
- Surface gravity
- 9.798 metre per square second
- Location
- inner Solar System statement is subject of: location of Earth
- circumstellar habitable zone
- Milky Way
- Local Group
- Minimum temperature record
- -89.2°C(July 21, 1983) location: Vostok Station
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Sources- 1.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2020/09/23/69-6-c-un-nouveau-record-de-froid-arctique-vieux-de-vingt-huit-ans-exhume_6053321_3244.htmlRetrieved 2020-09-23
- 2.wmo.asu.edu/content/world-lowest-temperatureRetrieved 2021-04-07
- -89.2°C(July 21, 1983) location: Vostok Station
- Area
- 510M km² characteristic of: Earth's surface
- Albedo
- 0.434 criterion used: geometric albedo
- 0.294 criterion used: Bond albedo
- Time of periapsis
- 2,459,219 Julian day epoch: J2000.0
- Speed
- 107,200 km/h statement is subject of: orbit of Earth
- Creator
- none statement disputed by: creationism · statement supported by: atheism, science
- Child astronomical body
- Moon(since -4527000000) sourcing circumstances: circa
- International Space Station(since 1998)
- Mir(1986–2001)
- Hubble Space Telescope(since 1990)
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite
- Telstar 18V
- Kordylewski cloud
- TerraSAR-X
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- Libertad 1
- Soil Moisture Active Passive
- SPOT 1
- GSAT-18
- QUESS
- Van Allen Probe A
- Van Allen Probe B
- Sentinel-2B
- GRACE-1
- GRACE-2
- GRACE-FO 1
- GRACE-FO 2
- Seeker
- Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich
- Sentinel-6B
- Enxaneta
- SAMPAN I
- 2024 PT5(2024–2024)
- 2020 CD3(2016–2020)
- 2022 NX1(2022–2022)
- 2006 RH120(2006–2007)
- Skylab(1973–1979)
- geostationary orbit
- Salyut 1(1971–1971)
- STS-90
- Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity
- ADM-Aeolus
- Explorer 4
- Salyut 5
- Vanguard 2
- Explorer 6
- geosynchronous satellite
- Kosmos 557
- ESA-GEOS 2
- geocentric orbit
- Landsat 1
- Wide-Field Infrared Explorer
- AMSAT-OSCAR 7
- ITAMSAT
- Tiangong-2
- DODGE
- Landsat 5
- Taiyin
- e-st@r
- artificial satellite of the Earth
- Sentinel-1A
- UniSat 6
- AsiaSat 8
- geostationary satellite
- SpaceX CRS-9
- Sentinel-2A
- Sentinel-1B
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On other databases
136 identifiers linking Earth across the web's reference databases
- AGROVOC IDc_2437
- All the Tropes article IDEarth
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID1136
- ArchINFORM location ID3070
- Archive of Our Own tagEarth
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinezeme-2
- Australian Educational Vocabulary IDscot/1917
- BabelNet ID00029424n
- Bashenc.online ID85704
- Basisklassifikation74.13
- BBC News topic IDc34p8n88rl6t
- BBC Things IDdd8bc764-62f3-4f5f-837d-09aa2580f7b9
- Bgm.tv character ID12929
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID11975911n
- Bing entity ID6ddb3372-4801-5567-321e-e8a53bd774a4
- BNCF Thesaurus ID5175
- Booru tagearth_(planet)
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDerde
- Comic Vine ID4020-57183
- Cultureel Woordenboek IDaarde-weer-en-klimaat/aarde
- Curlie IDScience/Astronomy/Solar_System/Planets/Earth/
- Cyprus Bibliography ID11978
- Danbooru tagearth_(planet)
- Data Commons IDEarth
- De Agostini IDTèrra+(astronomia)
- Der Spiegel topic IDerde
- Dewey Decimal Classification550
- Enciclopedia Galega Universal ID191749
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Earth
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDterre-la-planete-terre
- Encyclopedia of China (Second Edition) ID198855
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026)3ixNlQ
- Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021)580878
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture IDE0054086
- Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ID15977
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction IDterra
- EU Knowledge Graph item IDQ481
- FactGrid item IDQ176134
- Fallout Wiki IDEarth
- Famous Birthdays IDplanets/earth
- Fandom article IDoursolarsystem:Earth
- FAST ID1860481
- France 24 topic ID (French)terre
- Freebase ID/m/02j71
- GACS ID24817
- Gaming Wiki Network article IDfallout:Earth
- GeoNames ID6295630
- Georgian Encyclopedia ID3980
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID7030638
- Giant Bomb ID (former scheme)3035-65
- Giant Bomb Wiki IDLocations/Earth
- GND ID1135962553
- Golden ID (archived)Earth
- Google News topics IDCAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNREpxTnpFU0FtVnVLQUFQAQ
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDterra-14
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0145903
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDJorden
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)5310930
- Harper's tagearth
- Iconclass notation25
- IDAI.gazetteer ID2042600
- IFLA value vocabularies IDplanet#ea
- IMDb keywordplanet-earth
- INaturalist place ID93997
- Interlingual Index IDi85350
- J9U entity ID987007445644605171
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)earth
- KBpedia IDPlanetEarth
- Klexikon article IDErde
- Krugosvet article (archived)nauka_i_tehnika/astronomiya/ZEMLYA.html
- Larousse IDdivers/Terre/96671
- LC and MARC vocabularies IDgeographicAreas/x
- Lex IDJorden
- Lib.reviews IDearth
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh85040427
- Library of Congress ClassificationQB630-QB638.8
- Lille norske leksikon IDJorda
- MeSH concept IDM0027785
- MeSH descriptor IDD018534
- MeSH term IDT000950539
- MeSH tree codeG01.060.075.730.700.200
- Museum-digital tag ID18235
- NAIF ID399
- Namuwiki ID지구
- National Library of Iceland ID000051235
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls000220975
- National Library of Israel ID (old)003982849
- National Library of Korea IDKSH1998010647
- National Library of Latvia ID000055925
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX453913
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