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  • Area > Comparative: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Map references: The name of the CIA World Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
  • 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.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
STAT Bassas da India Canada HISTORY
Area > Comparative about one-third the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly larger than the US
Area > Comparative to US places about one-third the size of The Mall in Washington, DC somewhat larger than the US
Area > Land 0.2 sq km
Ranked 20th.
9.09 million sq km
Ranked 5th. 45467535 times more than Bassas da India

Area > Total 0.2 sq km
Ranked 18th.
9.98 million sq km
Ranked 3rd. 49923350 times more than Bassas da India

Climate tropical varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north
Coastline 35.2 km
Ranked 202nd.
202,080 km
Ranked 1st. 5741 times more than Bassas da India

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 2.4 m Mount Logan 5,959 m
Geographic coordinates 21 30 S, 39 50 E 60 00 N, 95 00 W
Location Southern Africa, islands in the southern Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from Madagascar to Mozambique Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north, north of the conterminous US
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 3rd. The same as Canada
200 nautical mile
Ranked 126th.

Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 3rd. The same as Canada
12 nautical mile
Ranked 178th.

Natural hazards maritime hazard since it is usually under water during high tide and surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones continuous permafrost in north is a serious obstacle to development; cyclonic storms form east of the Rocky Mountains, a result of the mixing of air masses from the Arctic, Pacific, and North American interior, and produce most of the country's rain and snow east of the mountains
Natural resources none iron ore, nickel, zinc, copper, gold, lead, rare earth elements, molybdenum, potash, diamonds, silver, fish, timber, wildlife, coal, petroleum, natural gas, hydropower
Population density 0.0
Ranked 252nd.
3.36 people per sqkm
Ranked 217th.
Terrain volcanic rock mostly plains with mountains in west and lowlands in southeast
Map references <a href="/region/AFR" >Africa</a> North America
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 31st. 5% more than Canada
95.2%
Ranked 77th.

Note the islands emerge from a circular reef that sits atop a long-extinct, submerged volcano second-largest country in world (after Russia); strategic location between Russia and US via north polar route; approximately 90% of the population is concentrated within 160 km of the US border; Canada has more fresh water than any other country and almost 9% of Canadian territory is water; Canada has at least 2 million and possibly over 3 million lakes - that is more than all other countries combined

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

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