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Oceania > Cook Islands > Geography

COOK ISLANDER GEOGRAPHY STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Area > Comparative 164
Area > Land 209 sq km [th of 236]
Area > Total 220 sq km [th of 248]
Area > Water 210 sq km [th of 237]
Climate 115
Coastline 167 km [th of 249]
Elevation extremes > Highest point 113
Elevation extremes > Lowest point 113
Forested Land 1% [th of 193]
Geographic coordinates 115
Geography > Note 115
Land use > Arable land 74 % [th of 241]
Location 115
Map references 115
Maritime claims > Continental shelf 30
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 42 nm [th of 121]
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 39 nm [th of 190]
Natural resources 113
Population density 107 people per sqkm [th of 256]
Terrain 112

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SOURCES: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America. ; Total land area in square kilometres ; Total area in square kilometers ; Total water area in square kilometers ; A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year. ; The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea. ; Highest point above sea level ; Lowest point relative to sea level ; Forested land as a proportion of total land area, estimate by FAO; 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. ; This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere. ; 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 ; The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water. ; 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. ; Continental shelf - the LOS Convention (Article 76) defines the continental shelf of a coastal State as comprising the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas that extend beyond its territorial sea throughout the natural prolongation of its land territory to the outer edge of the continental margin, or to a distance of 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured where the outer edge of the continental margin does not extend up to that distance; the continental margin comprises the submerged prolongation of the landmass of the coastal State, and consists of the seabed and subsoil of the shelf, the slope and the rise; it does not include the deep ocean floor with its oceanic ridges or the subsoil thereof. A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention. ; 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 ; 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. ; A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance. ; People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.; A brief description of the topography

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