For example on wikipedia for Switzerland it says the country has an area of 41,285 km². Does this take into account that a lot of that area is actually angled at a steep inclination, thus the actual surface area is in effect larger than what you would expect when looking onto a map in satellite view?

  • nednobbins@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    No.

    It’s actually worse than that. Very few borders are straight lines. We have to approximate the border when calculating land area.