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Geography Stats: compare key data on British Indian Ocean Territory & Germany

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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.
  • Google Street View, year added: Year in which country was first covered by Google Street View.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
  • Marine Coastline: Length of each country's coastline in kilometers.
STAT British Indian Ocean Territory Germany HISTORY
Area > Comparative land area is about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC slightly smaller than Montana
Area > Comparative to US places land area is about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC slightly smaller than Montana
Area > Land 60 sq km
Ranked 8th.
349,223 sq km
Ranked 61st. 5820 times more than British Indian Ocean Territory

Area > Total 54,400 sq km
Ranked 129th.
357,022 sq km
Ranked 64th. 7 times more than British Indian Ocean Territory

Area > Water 54,340 sq km
Ranked 13th. 7 times more than Germany
8,350 sq km
Ranked 54th.

Climate tropical marine; hot, humid, moderated by trade winds temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind
Coastline 698 km
Ranked 96th.
2,389 km
Ranked 55th. 3 times more than British Indian Ocean Territory

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location on Diego Garcia 15 m Zugspitze 2,963 m
Geographic coordinates 6 00 S, 71 30 E 51 00 N, 9 00 E
Irrigated land 0.0
Ranked 28th.
4,850 sq km
Ranked 54th.

Land use > Arable land 0.0
Ranked 225th.
33.25%
Ranked 21st.

Location archipelago in the Indian Ocean, south of India, about halfway between Africa and Indonesia Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark
Natural hazards NA flooding
Natural resources coconuts, fish, sugarcane coal, lignite, natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, potash, salt, construction materials, timber, arable land
Terrain flat and low (most areas do not exceed two meters in elevation) lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 3 nautical mile
Ranked 188th.
12 nautical mile
Ranked 19th. 4 times more than British Indian Ocean Territory

Elevation extremes > Lowest point Indian Ocean 0 m Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.54 m
Population density 0.0
Ranked 245th.
234.86 people per sqkm
Ranked 50th.
Map references Political Map of the World Europe
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 9th. 51% more than Germany
66.19%
Ranked 211th.

Land use > Permanent crops 0.0
Ranked 220th.
0.56%
Ranked 142nd.

Google Street View, year added 2,013
Ranked 4th. About the same as Germany
2,010
Ranked 49th.
Note archipelago of 55 islands; Diego Garcia, largest and southernmost island, occupies strategic location in central Indian Ocean; island is site of joint US-UK military facility strategic location on North European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea
Marine Coastline 698 km
Ranked 96th.
2,389 km
Ranked 55th. 3 times more than British Indian Ocean Territory

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; Heal The World Foundation.; Wikipedia: Google Street View (Coverage); CIA Factbook: List of countries by coastline size

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