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Area > A note includes 14 islands including Saipan, Rota, and Tinian
Area > Comparative to US places 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC
DEFINITION: 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).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Forested Land	30.4%		[77th of 193]
DEFINITION: Forested land as a proportion of total land area, estimate by FAO
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Geographic coordinates	15 12 N, 145 45 E
DEFINITION: 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.		View time series
SOURCE: FAO
Population density	145.49 people per sqkm		[71st of 256]
DEFINITION: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Population density > people per sq. km	165.83 people/m²		[54th of 204]
DEFINITION: Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not permanently settled in the country of asylum, who are generally considered part of the population of their country of origin. Land area is a country's total area, excluding area under inland water bodies, national claims to continental shelf, and exclusive economic zones. In most cases the definition of inland water bodies includes major rivers and lakes.		View time series
SOURCE: Heal The World Foundation.
Surface area > sq. km	477 km²		[185th of 206]
DEFINITION: Surface area is a country's total area, including areas under inland bodies of water and some coastal waterways.		View time series
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

Interesting facts on NA Geography

• The four largest nations are Russia, China, USA, and Canada.
• Canada lays claim to more water than any other nation.

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