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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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
  • 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 resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
  • Terrain: A brief description of the topography
  • Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
  • 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.
  • 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 Palmyra Atoll United Kingdom HISTORY
Area > Comparative about 20 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Comparative to US places about 20 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Land 11.9 sq km
Ranked 10th.
241,590 sq km
Ranked 77th. 20302 times more than Palmyra Atoll

Area > Total 11.9 sq km
Ranked 239th.
243,610 sq km
Ranked 81st. 20471 times more than Palmyra Atoll

Area > Water 0.0
Ranked 158th.
1,680 sq km
Ranked 94th.

Climate equatorial, hot, and very rainy temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Coastline None
12,429 km
Ranked 14th.

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 2 m Ben Nevis 1,343 m
Elevation extremes > Lowest point Pacific Ocean 0 m The Fens -4 m
Geographic coordinates 5 52 N, 162 04 W 54 00 N, 2 00 W
Land use > Arable land 0.0
Ranked 217th.
24.88%
Ranked 38th.

Location Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and American Samoa Western Europe, islands - including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland - between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea; northwest of France
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 22nd. The same as United Kingdom
12 nautical mile
Ranked 108th.

Natural resources terrestrial and aquatic wildlife coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, arable land
Terrain very low mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Population density 0.0
Ranked 234th.
244.69 people per sqkm
Ranked 48th.
Map references Oceania Europe
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 3rd. 33% more than United Kingdom
74.93%
Ranked 188th.

Land use > Permanent crops 0.0
Ranked 207th.
0.18%
Ranked 172nd.

Note about 50 islets covered with dense vegetation, coconut trees, and balsa-like trees up to 30 meters tall lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km from France and linked by tunnel under the English Channel; because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km from tidal waters

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

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