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> Pakistan is home to over 7,200 glaciers, more than anywhere outside the poles It seems odd to give a measure of ice as the count of the pieces.
by nomel 4y ago
> Pakistan is home to over 7,200 glaciers, more than anywhere outside the poles
It seems odd to give a measure of ice as the count of the pieces.
- booboofixer 4y agoSee 'List of longest glaciers on Earth in non-polar regions' https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_glaciers
- nomel 4y ago57 is much less than 7,200.
- booboofixer 4y agoIm lost, what unit of measurement would satisfy your doubts about the presence of a lot of glaciers in Pakistan?
- throwaway09223 4y agoKind of, right? But it also makes sense. We might talk about a highly populated country having a lot of cities -- even though cities are just somewhat loosely defined pieces of the population total.
- MichaelZuo 4y agoI've never heard of anyone talk of the total number of cities in China, or India, or Indonesia, etc. Where do people talk like that?
- aliswe 4y agoglaciers do have a certain minimum size, though.
- nomel 4y agoIt appears USGS roughly defines it as 0.1 square kilometers [1], or (being American) about 6 Walmarts. 1. https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/there-size-criterion-glacier https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/there-size-criterion-glacier
- asciii 4y ago> 6 Walmarts? Supercenter, Discount Store, Neighborhood Market? So many sizes
- dumpsterlid 4y agoA glacier is defined by the valley/valleys it inhabits, it has a locality and flows like a river does. It seems odd to give it a name, but it is no more odd than naming a river.