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Geography Stats: compare key data on Germany & Navassa Island

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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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 Germany Navassa Island HISTORY
Area > Comparative slightly smaller than Montana about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Area > Comparative to US places slightly smaller than Montana about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Area > Land 349,223 sq km
Ranked 61st. 64671 times more than Navassa Island
5.4 sq km
Ranked 232nd.

Area > Total 357,022 sq km
Ranked 64th. 66115 times more than Navassa Island
5.4 sq km
Ranked 244th.

Area > Water 8,350 sq km
Ranked 54th.
0.0
Ranked 165th.

Climate temperate and marine; cool, cloudy, wet winters and summers; occasional warm mountain (foehn) wind marine, tropical
Coastline 2,389 km
Ranked 55th. 299 times more than Navassa Island
8 km
Ranked 196th.

Elevation extremes > Highest point Zugspitze 2,963 m unnamed elevation on southwest side 77 m
Geographic coordinates 51 00 N, 9 00 E 18 25 N, 75 02 W
Land use > Arable land 33.25%
Ranked 21st.
0.0
Ranked 220th.

Location Central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, 35 miles west of Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 19th. The same as Navassa Island
12 nautical mile
Ranked 32nd.

Natural hazards flooding hurricanes
Natural resources coal, lignite, natural gas, iron ore, copper, nickel, uranium, potash, salt, construction materials, timber, arable land guano
Terrain lowlands in north, uplands in center, Bavarian Alps in south raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high)
Elevation extremes > Lowest point Neuendorf bei Wilster -3.54 m Caribbean Sea 0 m
Population density 234.86 people per sqkm
Ranked 50th.
0.0
Ranked 237th.
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 10th. The same as Navassa Island
200 nautical mile
Ranked 18th.

Map references Europe Central America and the Caribbean
Land use > Other 66.19%
Ranked 211th.
100%
Ranked 6th. 51% more than Germany

Land use > Permanent crops 0.56%
Ranked 142nd.
0.0
Ranked 211th.

Note strategic location on North European Plain and along the entrance to the Baltic Sea strategic location 160 km south of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba; mostly exposed rock with numerous solution holes (limestone sinkholes) but with enough grassland to support goat herds; dense stands of fig trees, scattered cactus
Marine Coastline 2,389 km
Ranked 55th. 299 times more than Navassa Island
8 km
Ranked 196th.

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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