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  • Area > Comparative to US places: 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).
  • Area > Land: Total land area in square kilometres
  • Area > Total: Total area in square kilometers
  • Climate: A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
  • Coastline: The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
  • Elevation extremes > Highest point: Highest point above sea level
  • Geographic coordinates: 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.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
  • Land use > Other: The percentage share of used land that is not arable or under permanent crops. This includes permanent meadows and pastures, forests and woodlands, built-on areas, roads, barren land, etc.
  • Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
  • Maritime claims > Territorial sea: 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.
  • Natural hazards: Potential natural disasters.
  • Natural resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
  • Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
  • Terrain: A brief description of the topography
STAT Baker Island United Kingdom HISTORY
Area > Comparative to US places about 2.5 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Land 1.4 sq km
Ranked 17th.
241,590 sq km
Ranked 77th. 172564 times more than Baker Island

Area > Total 1.4 sq km
Ranked 15th.
243,610 sq km
Ranked 81st. 174007 times more than Baker Island

Climate equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Coastline 4.8 km
Ranked 222nd.
12,429 km
Ranked 14th. 2589 times more than Baker Island

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 8 m Ben Nevis 1,343 m
Geographic coordinates 0 13 N, 176 28 W 54 00 N, 2 00 W
Note treeless, sparse, and scattered vegetation consisting of grasses, prostrate vines, and low growing shrubs; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km from France and linked by tunnel under the English Channel; because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km from tidal waters
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 25th. 33% more than United Kingdom
74.93%
Ranked 188th.

Location Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia Western Europe, islands - including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland - between the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Sea; northwest of France
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 13th. The same as United Kingdom
12 nautical mile
Ranked 108th.

Natural hazards the narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard winter windstorms; floods
Natural resources guano (deposits worked until 1891), terrestrial and aquatic wildlife coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, arable land
Population density 0.0
Ranked 250th.
244.69 people per sqkm
Ranked 48th.
Terrain low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast

SOURCES: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Heal The World Foundation.

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