The globe measures just under 18 inches in diameter and is 23 1/2 inches high including the stand and finial. The base sphere is made up of 162 pentagons and hexagons as a polyhedron and then rounded into a sphere and ebonized. The land masses are various kinds of wood inlaid together with individual countries and states which will be glued to the base sphere as continents with curvature that matches the base sphere. Price range shown is for a globe of similar size and detail.