[talk-ph] Land area of the Philippines

[maning sambale]

Unless they tell you the scale, don't trust the numbers.  Its a
fractal problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox

On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 10:09 AM, rem zamora <pompyang at gmail.com> wrote:
> Parang tanong lang sa Miss Universe ah :)
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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 9:58 AM, tutubi <tutubi at backpackingphilippines.com>
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>> Eugene,
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>> land area may vary, depends whether it was measured during high tide or
>> low tide too
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>> :)
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>> On Apr 25, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I think most of you already know that the Philippines is supposed to have
>> a land area of 300,000 km². This is what is stored in the United Nations:
>> http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2009-2010/Table03.pdf
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>> However, the National Statistical Coordination Board says its 343,448.32
>> km²: http://www.nscb.gov.ph/view/geography.asp
>>
>> Confusingly, the Philippine Information Agency used to say it its website
>> that the area is 299,764 km².
>> http://web.archive.org/web/20090302131341/http://www.pia.gov.ph/philinfo/default.asp?fi=about&i=geography
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>> :-)
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