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Geography Stats: compare key data on Glorioso Islands & Netherlands

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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Population density: People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.
  • Terrain: A brief description of the topography
  • 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.
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
STAT Glorioso Islands Netherlands HISTORY
Area > Comparative about eight times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
Area > Comparative to US places about eight times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
Area > Land 5 sq km
Ranked 12th.
33,883 sq km
Ranked 133th. 6777 times more than Glorioso Islands

Area > Total 5 sq km
Ranked 10th.
41,543 sq km
Ranked 136th. 8309 times more than Glorioso Islands

Climate tropical temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters
Coastline 35.2 km
Ranked 201st.
451 km
Ranked 113th. 13 times more than Glorioso Islands

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed location 12 m Mount Scenery 862 m (on the island of Saba in the Caribbean, now considered an integral part of the Netherlands following the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles)
Geographic coordinates 11 30 S, 47 20 E 52 30 N, 5 45 E
Location Southern Africa, group of islands in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Madagascar Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany
Map references <a href="/region/AFR" >Africa</a> Europe
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 12th. The same as Netherlands
12 nautical mile
Ranked 170th.

Natural hazards periodic cyclones flooding
Natural resources guano, coconuts natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, salt, sand and gravel, arable land
Population density 0.0
Ranked 246th.
466.45 people per sqkm
Ranked 18th.
Terrain low and flat mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 19th. 35% more than Netherlands
74.04%
Ranked 191st.

Note the islands and rocks are surrounded by an extensive reef system located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde)

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Heal The World Foundation.

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