If you are reconstructing the planet
Earth for the little prince as he experienced it, then what you should do
is go back over the story and look at the prince's experiences on Earth as he relays
them.
For example, we learn in the middle of the story that the prince
landed in the Sahara Desert when he first arrived on Earth.
We know this because when he first meets the snake, the
snake very obligingly explains that they are in Africa and
that there are no people in the desert, as we see in the lines, "This is the Earth; this
is Africa ... This is the desert. There are no people in the desert" (Ch. 16). We can
deduce that the desert he has landed in is the Sahara because later the pilot
understands that the reason he met the prince in the desert is because the prince had
returned to the desert in order to return home. Therefore, at least a few objects that
should be included in your model of Earth is the continent of Africa, the Sahara Desert,
and a yellow desert snake.
In subsequent chapters, we learn that he
crosses the desert, converses with a desert flower, crosses a mountain range, as well as
many other things. Therefore, all of those can also be included in your model of the
Earth as the prince discovered it.
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