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Geography Stats: compare key data on Clipperton Island & India

Definitions

  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
STAT Clipperton Island India HISTORY
Area > Comparative about 12 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly more than one-third the size of the US
Area > Comparative to US places about 12 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly more than one-third the size of the US
Area > Land 6 sq km
Ranked 231st.
2.97 million sq km
Ranked 8th. 495532 times more than Clipperton Island

Area > Total 6 sq km
Ranked 243th.
3.29 million sq km
Ranked 8th. 547877 times more than Clipperton Island

Area > Water 0.0
Ranked 222nd.
314,070 sq km
Ranked 4th.

Climate tropical; humid, average temperature 20-32 degrees C, wet season (May to October) varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north
Coastline 11.1 km
Ranked 195th.
7,000 km
Ranked 20th. 631 times more than Clipperton Island

Elevation extremes > Highest point Rocher Clipperton 29 m Kanchenjunga 8,598 m
Geographic coordinates 10 17 N, 109 13 W 20 00 N, 77 00 E
Irrigated land 0.0
Ranked 31st.
663,340 sq km
Ranked 1st.

Land use > Arable land 0.0
Ranked 237th.
47.87%
Ranked 5th.

Location Middle America, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,120 km southwest of Mexico Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, between Burma and Pakistan
Natural hazards NA droughts; flash floods, as well as widespread and destructive flooding from monsoonal rains; severe thunderstorms; earthquakes
Natural resources fish coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, rare earth elements, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas, diamonds, petroleum, limestone, arable land
Terrain coral atoll upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 146th. The same as India
12 nautical mile
Ranked 79th.

Elevation extremes > Lowest point Pacific Ocean 0 m Indian Ocean 0 m
Population density 0.0
Ranked 251st.
336.62 people per sqkm
Ranked 32nd.
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 106th. The same as India
200 nautical mile
Ranked 56th.

Map references Political Map of the World Asia
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 20th. 2 times more than India
48.39%
Ranked 236th.

Land use > Permanent crops 0.0
Ranked 235th.
3.74%
Ranked 64th.

Note the atoll reef is approximately 12 km (7.5 mi) in circumference; an effort to colonize the atoll in the early 20th century ended in disaster and was abandoned in 1917 dominates South Asian subcontinent; near important Indian Ocean trade routes; Kanchenjunga, third tallest mountain in the world, lies on the border with Nepal
Marine Coastline 11.1 km
Ranked 195th.
7,000 km
Ranked 20th. 631 times more than Clipperton Island

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.; CIA Factbook: List of countries by coastline size

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