Global drainage areas

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Major drainage basins:

• Atlantic Ocean (about 48.7 percent of all world’s land drains to this ocean)
• Arctic Ocean (drainage basin about 17 percent of the world’s land)
• The Pacific and Indian Oceanes drainage basins comprises about 13 percent of Earth’s land.
• The Southern Ocean drainage basin comprises approximately 8 percent of the world’s land.