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Geography Stats: compare key data on Malaysia & Spratly Islands

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Definitions

  • Area > Water: Total water 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
  • Elevation extremes > Lowest point: This entry is derived from Geography > Elevation extremes, which includes both the highest point and the lowest point.
  • 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.
  • Irrigated land: The number of square kilometers of land area that is artificially supplied with water.
  • Land use > Arable land: The percentage of used land that is arable. Arable land is land cultivated for crops that are replanted after each harvest like wheat, maize, and rice
  • 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.
  • Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Land use > Permanent crops: The percentage share of used land on which permanent crops are grown. This is land cultivated for crops that are not replanted after each harvest like citrus, coffee, and rubber. It includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
STAT Malaysia Spratly Islands HISTORY
Area > Water 1,190 sq km
Ranked 107th.
0.0
Ranked 235th.

Climate tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons tropical
Coastline 4,675 km
Ranked 31st.
None

Elevation extremes > Highest point Gunung Kinabalu 4,100 m unnamed location on Southwest Cay 4 m
Elevation extremes > Lowest point Indian Ocean 0 m South China Sea 0 m
Geographic coordinates 2 30 N, 112 30 E 8 38 N, 111 55 E
Irrigated land 3,800 sq km
Ranked 4th.
0.0
Ranked 17th.

Land use > Arable land 5.44%
Ranked 147th.
0.0
Ranked 241st.

Land use > Other 77.07%
Ranked 181st.
100%
Ranked 23th. 30% more than Malaysia

Location 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 Southeastern Asia, group of reefs and islands in the South China Sea, about two-thirds of the way from southern Vietnam to the southern Philippines
Map references Southeast Asia Southeast Asia
Natural hazards flooding; landslides; forest fires typhoons; numerous reefs and shoals pose a serious maritime hazard
Natural resources tin, petroleum, timber, copper, iron ore, natural gas, bauxite fish, guano, undetermined oil and natural gas potential
Population density 65.06 people per sqkm
Ranked 126th.
0.0
Ranked 253th.
Terrain coastal plains rising to hills and mountains flat
Land use > Permanent crops 17.49%
Ranked 12th.
0.0
Ranked 240th.

Note strategic location along Strait of Malacca and southern South China Sea strategically located near several primary shipping lanes in the central South China Sea; includes numerous small islands, atolls, shoals, and coral reefs

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Heal The World Foundation.

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