Area > A note
includes St. Helena Island, Ascension, and the island group of Tristan da Cunha, which consists of Tristan da Cunha Island, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, and the three Nightingale Islands |
Area > Comparative to US places
slightly more than twice the size of Washington, DC |
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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). |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003 |
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Forested Land
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6.5% |
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[158th of 193]
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DEFINITION: Forested land as a proportion of total land area, estimate by FAO |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Geographic coordinates
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15 56 S, 5 42 W |
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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. |
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SOURCE: FAO |
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Population density
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17.43 people per sqkm |
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[187th of 256]
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DEFINITION: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42. |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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tallest mountains > Mountain
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Queen Mary's Peak |
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: Heal The World Foundation. |
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