How many glaciers are there currently in the world?

How many glaciers are there currently in the world?

  • (A) 198,000
  • (B) 197,500
  • (C) 298,000
  • (D) 199,000
According to the latest and most comprehensive inventories, such as the Randolph Glacier Inventory (RGI) and the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) records, there are an estimated 198,000 glaciers worldwide. This is in addition to the huge ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica, and their combined area is about 700,000 to 726,000 square kilometers.
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