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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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 United Kingdom HISTORY
Area > Comparative about one-third the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Comparative to US places about one-third the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Land 0.2 sq km
Ranked 20th.
241,590 sq km
Ranked 77th. 1207950 times more than Bassas da India

Area > Total 0.2 sq km
Ranked 18th.
243,610 sq km
Ranked 81st. 1218050 times more than Bassas da India

Climate tropical temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Coastline 35.2 km
Ranked 202nd.
12,429 km
Ranked 14th. 353 times more than Bassas da India

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 2.4 m Ben Nevis 1,343 m
Geographic coordinates 21 30 S, 39 50 E 54 00 N, 2 00 W
Location Southern Africa, islands in the southern Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from Madagascar to Mozambique 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
Map references <a href="/region/AFR" >Africa</a> Europe
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 3rd. The same as United Kingdom
12 nautical mile
Ranked 108th.

Natural hazards maritime hazard since it is usually under water during high tide and surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones winter windstorms; floods
Natural resources none 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 252nd.
244.69 people per sqkm
Ranked 48th.
Terrain volcanic rock mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 31st. 33% more than United Kingdom
74.93%
Ranked 188th.

Note the islands emerge from a circular reef that sits atop a long-extinct, submerged volcano 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

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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