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# Just how big is that 1:1500 scale Minecraft recreation of Earth’s continents?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/just-how-big-11500-scale-minecraft-recreation-earths-continents/
- Published: 2013-01-09T15:38:26.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T14:43:22.000Z
- Description: By now you’ve probably heard of one incredibly dedicated Minecraft builder’s quest to recreate the world’s continents at .06% of their actual size. So just how big is that. Permit us some back-of-the-internet-enveleop math, please. The size of all of the Earth’s continents is 57,393,000 square miles
- Author: Joseph Bernstein
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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By now you’ve probably heard of one incredibly dedicated Minecraft builder’s quest to recreate the world’s continents at .06% of their actual size. So just how big is that. Permit us some back-of-the-internet-enveleop math, please.

The size of all of the Earth’s continents is 57,393,000 square miles. 1/1500 of that figure is **38,262 square miles** of video game space. That’s about the size of real-life Iceland.

To give you a sense of how much digital terrain that is, keep in mind that Rockstar estimates that the new Grand Theft Auto game, bigger than *Red Dead Redemption*, *San Andreas*, and *GTA IV* put together, [will be around 50 square miles](http://killscreendaily.com/headlines/gta-v-going-be-twice-big-manhattan-actual-manhattan/?ref=killscreen.com).

So the *Minecraft* “miniature” of the real world will be about 762 times larger than *Grand Theft Auto 5*. Admittedly, there won’t be as many crimes to commit.