What percent of the Earth's land mass is North America? Is it a third?

Answer 1

No, it's not a third, but about a sixth of it. The Earth's total land mass is 148,939,063.133 km² (57,511,026.002 square miles), and North America (includes Greenland etc) covers an area of about 24,490,000 km² (9,450,000 sq mi). So North America is about 16,4% of the Earth's land mass (little less than 1/6), or about 4.8% of the planet's total surface (including oceans). Only about 8% of the worlds population live there, so I guess they have plenty of room.

Answer 2

IF the predictions were true, the Earth would be destroyed and you're question would be moot. Please don't worry about what you might have heard on TV, the radio, the Internet, or in the movies. Their reasons are all bunk. The sad part about all the 2012 uproar is that so many of its components are recycled. Just about any of the astronomical "catastrophes" have been the subjects of warnings before this. The likelihood of any of those occurring is 0. Solar activity varies on a 10.7 year cycle. No particular problems before, none likely now. The same is true about weather "catastrophes". There are always floods, fires, etc. and there is always someone who'll point to them and say "Doom is at hand!". The only thing new that is brought to the table is the Mayan long-count calendar. The turnover of the longest component of that calendar is about as important as New Year's Eve. All it says is the current cycle ends and a new cycle begins, period, end of story. Since there are a couple of phenomena that involve the magnetic poles (NOT the geographic poles), let's look at both. First, over time the location of the magnetic North Pole moves. This is a short term phenomena that has been known since 1831 and has been shown to move almost constantly. Geological studies have shown that the North and South Magnetic Poles have reversed many time in the past. It is a process that takes thousands of year to occur, it could be happening right now and we'd never know it. It never destroyed the world and there is no reason to think it will in the future. Mass die-offs of animals are really nothing unusual, see below. It just happens that some die-offs got more publicity than usual, that's all. Are you worried about "all the earthquakes we've been having"? You shouldn't be. According to the United States Geological Survey, in an average year there are 134 large (Magnitude 6.0-6.9) 15 major (Magnitude 7.0-7.9) and 1 Magnitude 8.0+ earthquakes. There have been two big quakes near the US last year, so there is more publicity then we might usually get. The point here is that things are getting worse. There is not a single "disaster" that is out of the ordinary. I am sure that for any given year, you could match what we've since since 2010. The real difference is that communication is so much more intense today because of the Internet. The news cycle gets so short that it seems we go from one bad thing to another. It just isn't so. So what will happen? The world will go on. A lot of worried people will feel stupid. A lot of stories will run about the big anti-climax, for about a week or so. And the main hoaxers, will quietly slip out of sight, to reappear in a few years for the "next end-of-the-world" scenario, likely 2029-2033: the 2000th anniversary of the Crucifixion (year depending which chronology you accept). wl

Answer 3

It covers an area of about 24,490,000 km², 9,450,000 in sq mi, or about 4.8% of the planet's surface. As of October 2006, its population was estimated at over 514,600,000. It is the third-largest continent in area, after Asia and Africa, and is fourth in population after Asia, Africa, and Europe.

Answer 4

about 1/ 8
area of land mass
is about right.