Geography Stats: compare key data on Indian Ocean & Netherlands

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STAT	Indian Ocean	Netherlands	HISTORY
Area > Comparative	about 5.5 times the size of the US	slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
Area > Comparative to US places	about 5.5 times the size of the US	slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
Area > Total	68.56 million sq km Ranked 3rd. 1650 times more than Netherlands	41,543 sq km Ranked 136th.
Climate	northeast monsoon (December to April), southwest monsoon (June to October); tropical cyclones occur during May/June and October/November in the northern Indian Ocean and January/February in the southern Indian Ocean	temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters
Coastline	66,526 km Ranked 4th. 148 times more than Netherlands	451 km Ranked 113th.
Elevation extremes > Highest point	sea level 0 m	Mount Scenery 862 m (on the island of Saba in the Caribbean, now considered an integral part of the Netherlands following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles)
Geographic coordinates	20 00 S, 80 00 E	52 30 N, 5 45 E
Note	major chokepoints include Bab el Mandeb, Strait of Hormuz, Strait of Malacca, southern access to the Suez Canal, and the Lombok Strait	located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde)
Location	body of water between Africa, the Southern Ocean, Asia, and Australia	Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany
Map references	Other	Europe
Natural hazards	occasional icebergs pose navigational hazard in southern reaches	flooding
Natural resources	oil and gas fields, fish, shrimp, sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules	natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, salt, sand and gravel, arable land
Terrain	surface dominated by counterclockwise gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the southern Indian Ocean; unique reversal of surface currents in the northern Indian Ocean; low atmospheric pressure over southwest Asia from hot, rising, summer air results in the southwest monsoon and southwest-to-northeast winds and currents, while high pressure over northern Asia from cold, falling, winter air results in the northeast monsoon and northeast-to-southwest winds and currents; ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Indian Ocean Ridge and subdivided by the Southeast Indian Ocean Ridge, Southwest Indian Ocean Ridge, and Ninetyeast Ridge	mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast

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