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| caption1 = Time zones of Packilvania from left to right: Eastern Packilvanian Time, Central East Packilvanian Time, Central West Packilvanian Time and West Packilvanian Time (each province chooses its own timezone in conjunction with the national government)
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| caption2 = Despite most of its territory being an uninhabitable desert, Packilvania has some of the longest and largest rivers in the world especially the Ufrata and Jumhur Rivers.
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Packilvania is the second largest country in the world by surface area, following the [[South Hills|United Confederation of Concordian States]], and followed by the [[Great Morstaybishlia|United Kingdom of Great Morstaybishlia and Justelvard]]. It spans an area of 6,143,888 square kilometres (roughly 2,372,168 square miles). The north of the country comprises the North Packilvanian Cold Desert, which is among the largest cold deserts in the world. This area is almost entirely flat and cold, and the ground is usually rocky. The interior and west of the country consist of the Great Packilvanian Central Desert. It is among the largest hot deserts in the world. It has some of the highest sand dunes in the world. The South Packilvanian Oceanic Winds carry much of this sand to other parts of the world which enables ecosystems (such as the Great Morstaybishlian rainforests) to flourish. There is a massive difference in elevation between the hot and cold deserts. There is a sudden increase in height on the boundaries of the two such that the cold desert is several hundred metres above sea level, but the hot desert is on average at or below sea level. The North Packilvanian Desert is surrounded by a thin strip of cold dry arid regions, which are characterised by cold temperatures and undulating hills and giant rock formations.
The most folliage-rich part of the country is the stretch of thickly forested and rainy areas along the Southern Coast of the country. The eastern part of the country consists of rolling hills, massive grassy plains, lightly forested areas and shrub land. The north east corner consists of the Jumhur Mountains which provide the sources of many great rivers and forms the border with [[Allegheny]] and [[Drakkengard]]. The [[Ufrata River|Ufrata]], Meked, Jumhur and Ubrahamahan Rivers are referred to as the Mother Rivers because they are the biggest and longest rivers and sources of other major rivers. They all originate from the Jumhur Mountains controlled by [[Packilvania]] except for the Ubrahamahan River which originates in the Packilvanian side of the [[Uliveru Mountains]] (in [[Tasselvalta]]) and the [[Ufrata River]] which originates from the [[Ta'lavero Mountains]] controlled by [[Vekaiyu]]. The Daughter Rivers (which are enormous and long tributaries of the mother rivers) are Abaxahad, Lashakhan, Datsahud, Sadaqer, Chihal, Yukud, Kaswahel, and Ebron Rivers.
===Biodiversity===
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*No density: 0% to 4% canopy density makes up 67% of the surface area. All provinces mentioned above as well as [[Ashura]], and [[Shakar]] have areas of no density. Shakar, has by far, the least amount of canopy cover.
The country is home to animals such as [[W:Zebra|zebras]], [[W:Bengal tiger|tigers]] (the national animal), [[W:Lion|lions]], [[W:Oryx|oryxes]],
The government has created areas called marine and terrestrial nature conservation areas where hunting, habitation, agriculture, industrial, commercial and other sentient activity is forbidden and punishable by up to life imprisonment. Nevertheless, there are many areas that are not protected and continue to be exploited for their natural resources or polluted by human habitation and economic activity at the expense of the biodiversity in those areas. Packilvania has suffered the highest loss of its natural habitat in the world over the past 100 years with habitat loss peaking between 1990 and 2010. The country has signed the International Convention on Environmental Conservation and committed to protecting its natural environments. Anti-desertification projects such as the Great Green Wall of Packilvania have been undertaken and rural and nomadic communities are allowed and encouraged to undertake forest horticulture (practices which span thousands of years).
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