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A handball court is 40 by 20 metres

The goal is 3 metres wide and 2 metres high, with a 6-metre arc in front Only the goalkeeper may stand inside the 6-metre goal area, though players can jump into it as long as they release the ball first. A dashed 9-metre line marks where a free throw is taken after a foul inside the arc. The court surface is usually a synthetic floor. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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International Handball Federation

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The goal is 3 metres wide and 2 metres high, with a 6-metre arc in front. The figure is taken from International Handball Federation, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.