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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
  • Area > Water: Total water 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.
  • Irrigated land: The number of square kilometers of land area that is artificially supplied with water.
  • Land use > Arable land: The percentage of used land that is arable. Arable land is land cultivated for crops that are replanted after each harvest like wheat, maize, and rice
  • Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
  • Natural hazards: Potential natural disasters.
  • Natural resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
  • Terrain: A brief description of the topography
  • 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.
  • Elevation extremes > Lowest point: This entry is derived from Geography > Elevation extremes, which includes both the highest point and the lowest point.
  • Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
  • 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.
  • Land use > Permanent crops: The percentage share of used land on which permanent crops are grown. This is land cultivated for crops that are not replanted after each harvest like citrus, coffee, and rubber. It includes land under flowering shrubs, fruit trees, nut trees, and vines, but excludes land under trees grown for wood or timber.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
  • Marine Coastline: Length of each country's coastline in kilometers.
  • Border to area ratio: The ratio of a country's land border to its surface area.
STAT Bouvet Island United Kingdom HISTORY
Area > Comparative about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Comparative to US places about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC slightly smaller than Oregon
Area > Land 49 sq km
Ranked 221st.
241,590 sq km
Ranked 77th. 4930 times more than Bouvet Island

Area > Total 49 sq km
Ranked 231st.
243,610 sq km
Ranked 81st. 4972 times more than Bouvet Island

Area > Water 0.0
Ranked 163th.
1,680 sq km
Ranked 94th.

Climate antarctic temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the days are overcast
Coastline 29.6 km
Ranked 188th.
12,429 km
Ranked 14th. 420 times more than Bouvet Island

Elevation extremes > Highest point Olav Peak 935 m Ben Nevis 1,343 m
Geographic coordinates 54 26 S, 3 24 E 54 00 N, 2 00 W
Irrigated land 0.0
Ranked 22nd.
1,950 sq km
Ranked 75th.

Land use > Arable land 0.0
Ranked 219th.
24.88%
Ranked 38th.

Location island in the South Atlantic Ocean, southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) 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
Natural hazards NA 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
Terrain volcanic; coast is mostly inaccessible mostly rugged hills and low mountains; level to rolling plains in east and southeast
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 4 nautical mile
Ranked 181st.
12 nautical mile
Ranked 108th. 3 times more than Bouvet Island

Elevation extremes > Lowest point South Atlantic Ocean 0 m The Fens -4 m
Population density 0.0
Ranked 236th.
244.69 people per sqkm
Ranked 48th.
Map references Antarctic Region Europe
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 5th. 33% more than United Kingdom
74.93%
Ranked 188th.

Land use > Permanent crops 0.0
Ranked 210th.
0.18%
Ranked 172nd.

Note covered by glacial ice; declared a nature reserve by Norway 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
Marine Coastline 29.6 km
Ranked 188th.
12,429 km
Ranked 14th. 420 times more than Bouvet Island
Border to area ratio 0.0
Ranked 164th.
0.00148 km/km²
Ranked 153th.

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