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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.
  • 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.
  • 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 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 > 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 India Tromelin Island HISTORY
Area > Comparative slightly more than one-third the size of the US about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Area > Comparative to US places slightly more than one-third the size of the US about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Area > Land 2.97 million sq km
Ranked 8th. 2973190 times more than Tromelin Island
1 sq km
Ranked 18th.
Area > Total 3.29 million sq km
Ranked 8th. 3287263 times more than Tromelin Island
1 sq km
Ranked 16th.
Climate varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north tropical
Coastline 7,000 km
Ranked 20th. 1892 times more than Tromelin Island
3.7 km
Ranked 224th.
Elevation extremes > Highest point Kanchenjunga 8,598 m unnamed location 7 m
Geographic coordinates 20 00 N, 77 00 E 15 52 S, 54 25 E
Location Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
Map references Asia <a href="/region/AFR" >Africa</a>
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 56th. The same as Tromelin Island
200 nautical mile
Ranked 15th.
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 79th. The same as Tromelin Island
12 nautical mile
Ranked 2nd.
Natural resources coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land fish
Population density 336.62 people per sqkm
Ranked 32nd.
0.0
Ranked 241st.
Terrain upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north low, flat, and sandy; likely volcanic
Land use > Other 48.39%
Ranked 236th.
100%
Ranked 12th. 2 times more than India

Note dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the border with Nepal climatologically important location for forecasting cyclones; wildlife sanctuary (seabirds, tortoises)

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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