The second point I would say is not really germane: the world is the shape it is in The Wheel of Time because of the Breaking of the World, not natural geological forces.
And to cap off this post, we note that some of the early maps were sketched out by Mike Ford, and others drawn by Thomas Canty but the later maps throughout the series are the work of Ellisa Mitchell, a talented artist whose clarity of vision and attention to detail have been responsible for helping us imagine the major cities that have appeared in the story. The northern ice cap also stretches somewhat further south than in our world. The southern ice cap completely covers whatever land is beneath it, and is larger than Antarctica. There are both northern and southern ice caps. Some speculate on the resemblance of this continent, in all respects, to current-day Australia, but on this we have no opinion. South of the known world is an island continent known only to the Sea Folk, but avoided by them, which they call “the Land of the Madmen.” Its dimensions are about 3,000 miles (W-E) by 2,000 miles (N-S), with its southern coast less than 500 miles from the southern ice cap in places. The north of Seanchan is about 2,000 miles across at its widest, and there is a span of 6,000 miles at its widest in the south. Seanchan is about 16,000 miles from the southern tip to the Mountains of Dhoom (named by Hawkwing’s armies) in the north-yes, the same mountain range that girdles the world on land and under the ocean. The Aiel Waste is about 1,200 miles across, while Shara is about 2,000 miles (W-E) by 5,000 miles (N-S), with the Great Blight extending further south in Shara than in the Borderlands. Seanchan to Shara across the Sea of Omerna is about 3,000 miles. Falme to Seanchan across the Aryth Ocean is about 11,000 miles. Falme to the Spine of the World is about 3,300 miles. Illian is about 2,500 miles south of Chachin, and 2,700 miles south of the Mountains of Dhoom. 
After all, it’s supposed to be our world, with all the tectonic plates shifted.
The world of the books is the same size as our world.
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