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Area > Comparative to US places slightly more than three times the size of Texas
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Geographic coordinates	72 00 N, 40 00 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: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
northernmost point > Latitude	83°40'N
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Population density	0.03 people per sqkm		[232nd of 256]
DEFINITION: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: List of countries by northernmost point
Population density > people per sq. km	0.14 people/m²		[204th 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	410,450 km²		[58th 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
tallest mountains > Mountain	Gunnbjorn
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database

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