The Bundestag (German pronunÂ­ciaÂ­tion: [ËbÊndÉstaËk], Federal Diet) is a constitutional and legislative body at the federal level in Germany. For its similar function, it is often described as a lower house of parliament along the lines of the US House of Representatives and the Canadian or the British House of Commons. The German constitution, however, does not define the Bundestag and the Bundesrat as the lower and upper houses of a bicameral legislature.
The total surface area of the Earth is about 7008510000000000000â 510 million km2 (197 million sq mi). Of this, 70.8%, or 7008361130000000000â 361.13 million km2 (139.43 million sq mi), is below sea level and covered by ocean water.
Because the Earth slightly flattens out at the poles, its shape is an oblate spheroid, meaning that it is similar to a sphere but is not perfectly regular. The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 24,902 miles. Again, that is a bit more than its circumference from pole to pole, which is 24,860 miles. At 5.52 grams per cubic centimeter, the Earth is the densest planet in the solar system.