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Antarctica: true size, area and map scale

The selected sources publish no verified area or population for Antarctica, so it is not ranked. The outline shows shape and position.

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Antarctica
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ISO CodeATAISO 3166-1 alpha-3 / UN M49
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The selected reference sources do not publish a comparable observation for at least one metric for this territory. RealSize.World displays missing data rather than assigning an unknown source to a legacy value.

Yes. The Natural Earth outline is a visualization, but without a verified numeric metric it should not be treated as an area measurement or ranking input.

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