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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.
  • 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 > Exclusive economic zone: Exclusive economic zone (EEZ) - the LOS Convention (Part V) defines the EEZ as a zone beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea in which a coastal State has: sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting, conserving and managing the natura
  • 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
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
STAT Baker Island United States HISTORY
Area > Comparative to US places about 2.5 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC about half the size of Russia; about three-tenths the size of Africa; about half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly larger than China; more than twice the size of the European Union
Area > Land 1.4 sq km
Ranked 17th.
9.16 million sq km
Ranked 4th. 6544231 times more than Baker Island

Area > Total 1.4 sq km
Ranked 15th.
9.83 million sq km
Ranked 4th. 7019054 times more than Baker Island

Climate equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun mostly temperate, but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the great plains west of the Mississippi River, and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are ameliorated occasionally in January and February by warm chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains
Coastline 4.8 km
Ranked 222nd.
19,924 km
Ranked 9th. 4151 times more than Baker Island

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 8 m Mount McKinley (Denali) 6,194 m (highest point in North America)
Geographic coordinates 0 13 N, 176 28 W 38 00 N, 97 00 W
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 25th. 20% more than United States
83.44%
Ranked 150th.

Location Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia North America, bordering both the North Atlantic Ocean and the North Pacific Ocean, between Canada and Mexico
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 13th. The same as United States
200 nautical mile
Ranked 41st.

Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 13th. The same as United States
12 nautical mile
Ranked 61st.

Natural hazards the narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard tsunamis; volcanoes; earthquake activity around Pacific Basin; hurricanes along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico coasts; tornadoes in the Midwest and Southeast; mud slides in California; forest fires in the west; flooding; permafrost in northern Alaska, a major impediment to development
Natural resources guano (deposits worked until 1891), terrestrial and aquatic wildlife coal, copper, lead, molybdenum, phosphates, rare earth elements, uranium, bauxite, gold, iron, mercury, nickel, potash, silver, tungsten, zinc, petroleum, natural gas, timber
Population density 0.0
Ranked 250th.
29.77 people per sqkm
Ranked 167th.
Terrain low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef vast central plain, mountains in west, hills and low mountains in east; rugged mountains and broad river valleys in Alaska; rugged, volcanic topography in Hawaii
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 world's third-largest country by size (after Russia and Canada) and by population (after China and India); Mt. McKinley is highest point in North America and Death Valley the lowest point on the continent

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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