WHERE IS THE BORDER BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA? - 1996

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Russia Picture by Jacek Pałkiewicz
Travel story: WHERE IS THE BORDER BETWEEN EUROPE AND ASIA? - 1996

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f you need to know the size of the Old World, you will find out that the sources are misleading. The Soviet Encyclopedia defines it as 11.609.000 sq. km, the Italian Treccani - as 9.460.000 sq. km, and Encyclopedia Britannica claims that it is 10.400.000. The difference in size is as big as seven ltaly's.

This kind of inaccuracy is unbelievable in the days when satellites can define the location of an object as small as a few feet in length, or... More