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  • Area > Comparative: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
  • Area > Comparative to US places: This entry provides an area comparison based on total area equivalents. Most entities are compared with the entire US or one of the 50 states based on area measurements (1990 revised) provided by the US Bureau of the Census. The smaller entities are compared with Washington, DC (178 sq km, 69 sq mi) or The Mall in Washington, DC (0.59 sq km, 0.23 sq mi, 146 acres).
  • Area > Land: Total land area in square kilometres
  • Area > Total: Total area in square kilometers
  • Climate: A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
  • Coastline: The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
  • Elevation extremes > Highest point: Highest point above sea level
  • Geographic coordinates: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources.
  • Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
  • Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone: Exclusive economic zone (EEZ) - the LOS Convention (Part V) defines the EEZ as a zone beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which a coastal State has: sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natura
  • Maritime claims > Territorial sea: territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal State extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the LOS Convention (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles. A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention.
  • Natural hazards: Potential natural disasters.
  • Natural resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
  • Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
  • Terrain: A brief description of the topography
  • Map references: The name of the CIA World Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
  • Land use > Other: The percentage share of used land that is not arable or under permanent crops. This includes permanent meadows and pastures, forests and woodlands, built-on areas, roads, barren land, etc.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
STAT Glorioso Islands Malaysia HISTORY
Area > Comparative about eight times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly larger than New Mexico
Area > Comparative to US places about eight times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly larger than New Mexico
Area > Land 5 sq km
Ranked 12th.
328,550 sq km
Ranked 63th. 65710 times more than Glorioso Islands

Area > Total 5 sq km
Ranked 10th.
329,847 sq km
Ranked 68th. 65969 times more than Glorioso Islands

Climate tropical tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons
Coastline 35.2 km
Ranked 201st.
4,675 km
Ranked 31st. 133 times more than Glorioso Islands

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 12 m Gunung Kinabalu 4,100 m
Geographic coordinates 11 30 S, 47 20 E 2 30 N, 112 30 E
Location Southern Africa, group of islands in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Madagascar Southeastern Asia, peninsula bordering Thailand and northern one-third of the island of Borneo, bordering Indonesia, Brunei, and the South China Sea, south of Vietnam
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 12th. The same as Malaysia
200 nautical mile
Ranked 107th.

Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 12th. The same as Malaysia
12 nautical mile
Ranked 147th.

Natural hazards periodic cyclones flooding; landslides; forest fires
Natural resources guano, coconuts tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite
Population density 0.0
Ranked 246th.
65.06 people per sqkm
Ranked 126th.
Terrain low and flat coastal plains rising to hills and mountains
Map references <a href="/region/AFR" >Africa</a> Southeast Asia
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 19th. 30% more than Malaysia
77.07%
Ranked 181st.

Note the islands and rocks are surrounded by an extensive reef system strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Heal The World Foundation.

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