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		corrral on July 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: July 8 99% of the world’s population in sunlight s... Yep, that's the one. Ballpark 7% of the Earth's surface, or 15% of the land-surface area (guesstimate based on the whole circle being about 22% of the land surface area—but much of the circle is over water). Over 50% of the population.

Beldin on July 8, 2022 [–]

One of the claims of the circle was that over half of it was water. So then your guesstimate can be lowered to less than 11% of land surface area.

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