The Pacific Ocean spans 60 million square miles, making it larger than all of Earth's landmasses combined.
Notes on verification
Confirmed by NOAA and Wikipedia with matching figures; multiple independent sources corroborate the comparison to total landmass. [cascade flags: wikipedia_dropped_other_sources_exist | tier=unverified indep_score=0.5 clusters=1 claim_tier=notable] [kind-backfill 2026-09-16: kind=empirical eligibility=high] [harvest 2026-09-25: +3 source(s) on new hosts; tier unverified->silver indep=0.983 clusters=3]
Sources
- The Pacific Ocean—facts and information (seed:science_and_space)
- https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean-fact/pacific-size/ (corroboration)
- https://brilliantmaps.com/the-pacific-ocean-is-larger-than-all-land-on-earth/ (corroboration)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_fisheries (corroboration)
- https://heritage.suffolk.gov.uk/ThesaurusTerm/106961 (corroboration)