Geography Stats: compare key data on Atlantic Ocean & Philippines

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STAT	Atlantic Ocean	Philippines	HISTORY
Area > Comparative	slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US	slightly larger than Arizona
Area > Comparative to US places	slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US	slightly larger than Arizona
Area > Total	76.76 million sq km Ranked 2nd. 256 times more than Philippines	300,000 sq km Ranked 74th.
Climate	tropical cyclones (hurricanes) develop off the coast of Africa near Cape Verde and move westward into the Caribbean Sea; hurricanes can occur from May to December, but are most frequent from August to November	tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to April); southwest monsoon (May to October)
Coastline	111,866 km Ranked 3rd. 3 times more than Philippines	36,289 km Ranked 5th.
Elevation extremes > Highest point	sea level 0 m	Mount Apo 2,954 m
Geographic coordinates	0 00 N, 25 00 W	13 00 N, 122 00 E
Note	major chokepoints include the Dardanelles, Strait of Gibraltar, access to the Panama and Suez Canals; strategic straits include the Strait of Dover, Straits of Florida, Mona Passage, The Sound (Oresund), and Windward Passage; the Equator divides the Atlantic Ocean into the North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean	the Philippine archipelago is made up of 7,107 islands; favorably located in relation to many of Southeast Asia's main water bodies: the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sulu Sea, Celebes Sea, and Luzon Strait
Location	body of water between Africa, Europe, the Southern Ocean, and the Western Hemisphere	Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam
Map references	Other	Southeast Asia
Natural hazards	icebergs common in Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, and the northwestern Atlantic Ocean from February to August and have been spotted as far south as Bermuda and the Madeira Islands; ships subject to superstructure icing in extreme northern Atlantic from October to May; persistent fog can be a maritime hazard from May to September; hurricanes (May to December)	astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; tsunamis
Natural resources	oil and gas fields, fish, marine mammals (seals and whales), sand and gravel aggregates, placer deposits, polymetallic nodules, precious stones	timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, copper
Terrain	surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and coastal portions of the Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northern Atlantic, counterclockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic; the ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin	mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands

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