To give you an idea of the size of the Earth, I will tell you that before the invention of electricity it was necessary to maintain, over the whole of the six continents, a veritable army of 462,511 lamplighters for the street lamps.
So then the seventh planet was the Earth.
北极独一一盏路灯，南极也只要一盏，唯独北极的点灯人和他南极的同事，过着散逸、清闲的糊口：他们每年只事情两次。
Only the man who was in charge of the single lamp at the North Pole, and his colleague who was responsible for the single lamp at the South Pole― only these two would live free from toil and care: they would be busy twice a year.
Chapter 16
The Earth is not just an ordinary planet! One can count, there 111 kings (not forgetting, to be sure, the Negro kings among them), 7000 geographers, 900,000 businessmen, 7,500,000 tipplers, 311,000,000 conceited men― that is to say, about 2,000,000,000 grown-ups.
以是，小王子拜候的第七个星球就是地球了。
为了让你们对地球的大小有一个清楚体味，我想要奉告你们，在发明电之前，在六大洲上，为了点路灯，需求有一支为数四十六万二千五百一十一人的雄师。
Seen from a slight distance, that would make a splendid spectacle. The movements of this army would be regulated like those of the ballet in the opera. First would come the turn of the lamplighters of New Zealand and Australia. Having set their lamps alight, these would go off to sleep. Next, the lamplighters of China and Siberia would enter for their steps in the dance, and then they too would be waved back into the wings. After that would come the turn of the lamplighters of Russia and the Indies; then those of Africa and Europe, then those of South America; then those of South America; then those of North America. And never would they make a mistake in the order of their entry upon the stage. It would be magnificent.