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Area > Comparative to US places 1.3 times the size of Washington, DC
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Forested Land	95.7%		[1st 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	21 14 S, 159 46 W
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	84.17 people per sqkm		[107th 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
tallest mountains > Mountain	Te Manga
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SOURCE: Heal The World Foundation.

Interesting facts on Cook Islander Geography

• Almost the entire Cook Islands are covered by forest.

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