Whether you’ve just completed school or you graduated decades ago, there are likely many things you don’t know about the extraordinary planet on which we live.

For instance: Were you aware that the Pacific Ocean is shrinking every year? Or that the world includes a sea without coasts? Or that Alaska isn’t just the westernmost state in the U.S., but the easternmost as well?

The third rock from the sun is much more complex than you may think — as evidenced by these alternative facts about geography.

Continents shift at about the same rate as your fingernails grow. Mt. … Ninety percent of Earth’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere. 4. California has more people than all of Canada. … Australia is wider than the moon.

In this area there is no home, although the map marks there is.