For example on wikipedia for Switzerland it says the country has an area of 41,285 km². Does this take into account that a lot of that area is actually angled at a steep inclination, thus the actual surface area is in effect larger than what you would expect when looking onto a map in satellite view?

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    4 months ago

    It’s the same problem with defining coastlines. You can keep increasing the resolution and the coastline length will increase indefinitely.