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?

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There’s clearly a slant, but you can see where it was a bit too much and so they added retaining walls to level things out.

    I have seen farmers work on steeper slopes (not saying it would be easy…).

    I would rather guess the purpose of these retaining walls is to slow down the soil erosion.