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Geography Stats: compare key data on Germany & Guernsey

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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 > Land > Per capita: Total land area in square kilometres Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • 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.
  • Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
  • 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.
  • Terrain: A brief description of the topography
  • 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.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
  • Marine Coastline: Length of each country's coastline in kilometers.
  • Area > Total > Per capita: Total area in square kilometers Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
STAT Germany Guernsey HISTORY
Area > Comparative slightly smaller than Montana about one-half the size of Washington, DC
Area > Comparative to US places slightly smaller than Montana about one-half the size of Washington, DC
Area > Land 349,223 sq km
Ranked 61st. 4477 times more than Guernsey
78 sq km
Ranked 2nd.

Area > Land > Per capita 4.24 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 175th. 4 times more than Guernsey
1.19 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 212th.
Area > Total 357,022 sq km
Ranked 64th. 4577 times more than Guernsey
78 sq km
Ranked 227th.

Area > Water 8,350 sq km
Ranked 54th.
0.0
Ranked 211th.

Climate temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind temperate with mild winters and cool summers; about 50% of days are overcast
Coastline 2,389 km
Ranked 55th. 48 times more than Guernsey
50 km
Ranked 180th.

Elevation extremes > Highest point Zugspitze 2,963 m unnamed elevation on Sark 114 m
Geographic coordinates 51 00 N, 9 00 E 49 28 N, 2 35 W
Location Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark Western Europe, islands in the English Channel, northwest of France
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 19th. 4 times more than Guernsey
3 nautical mile
Ranked 193th.

Natural hazards flooding NA
Natural resources coal, lignite, natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, potash, salt, construction materials, timber, arable land cropland
Terrain lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south mostly level with low hills in southwest
Elevation extremes > Lowest point Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.54 m Atlantic Ocean 0 m
Population density 234.86 people per sqkm
Ranked 50th.
337.04 people per sqkm
Ranked 29th. 44% more than Germany
Map references Europe Europe
Note strategic location on North European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea large, deepwater harbor at Saint Peter Port
Marine Coastline 2,389 km
Ranked 55th. 48 times more than Guernsey
50 km
Ranked 180th.
Area > Total > Per capita 4.33 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 179th. 4 times more than Guernsey
1.19 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 216th.

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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