SortStack #307 — 2027-04-12

By size · Order from shortest to longest.

1. A new wooden pencil 18 cm

   A single pencil can draw a line roughly 56 kilometres long before the graphite runs out.

2. A French baguette 63 cm

   French law defines the traditional baguette so strictly it can contain only flour, water, salt and yeast.

3. Mount Fuji, Japan 3.8 km

   Though it looks serene, Fuji is an active volcano that last erupted in 1707, dusting distant Tokyo with ash.

4. The island of Manhattan (length) 21.5 km

   The entire island was famously bought from Native inhabitants in 1626 for goods worth a tiny sum.

5. Lake Geneva (length) 73 km

   Shared by Switzerland and France, its waters take over a decade to fully cycle through and renew.

6. Chile (length) 4.4K km

   So long and thin it spans 38 degrees of latitude, from the driest desert on Earth to icy glaciers in the south.

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