How far does the Atlantic Ocean widen each year?
25 mmAbout 0.98 in · Handheld
About 2.5 cm, roughly as fast as your fingernails grow.
🌊25 mm
🪲a flea
To scale: a year of continental drift is about 10× bigger than a flea.
Things about the same size
- How wide is a UK 1p coin?20.3 mm
- How wide is a US nickel?21.21 mm
- How wide is a 1 euro coin?23.25 mm
- How wide is a UK £1 coin?23.43 mm
- How wide is the human eyeball?24 mm
- How wide is a US quarter?24.26 mm
- How wide is a 2 euro coin?25.75 mm
- How wide is a Japanese 500 yen coin?26.5 mm
Many real things vary in size, so we use a typical or official figure. Spotted a mistake? Email [email protected].