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Geography Stats: compare key data on Navassa Island & Philippines

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
  • Elevation extremes > Lowest point: This entry is derived from Geography > Elevation extremes, which includes both the highest point and the lowest point.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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 Navassa Island Philippines HISTORY
Area > Comparative about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly larger than Arizona
Area > Comparative to US places about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC slightly larger than Arizona
Area > Land 5.4 sq km
Ranked 232nd.
298,170 sq km
Ranked 69th. 55217 times more than Navassa Island

Area > Total 5.4 sq km
Ranked 244th.
300,000 sq km
Ranked 74th. 55556 times more than Navassa Island

Area > Water 0.0
Ranked 165th.
1,830 sq km
Ranked 92nd.

Climate marine, tropical tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to April); southwest monsoon (May to October)
Coastline 8 km
Ranked 196th.
36,289 km
Ranked 5th. 4536 times more than Navassa Island

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed elevation on southwest side 77 m Mount Apo 2,954 m
Elevation extremes > Lowest point Caribbean Sea 0 m Philippine Sea 0 m
Geographic coordinates 18 25 N, 75 02 W 13 00 N, 122 00 E
Land use > Arable land 0.0
Ranked 220th.
18%
Ranked 59th.

Location Caribbean, island in the Caribbean Sea, 35 miles west of Tiburon Peninsula of Haiti Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Philippine Sea and the South China Sea, east of Vietnam
Natural hazards hurricanes astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; landslides; active volcanoes; destructive earthquakes; tsunamis
Natural resources guano timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver, gold, salt, copper
Terrain raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 m high) mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal lowlands
Population density 0.0
Ranked 237th.
266.11 people per sqkm
Ranked 42nd.
Maritime claims > Exclusive economic zone 200 nautical mile
Ranked 18th. The same as Philippines
200 nautical mile
Ranked 90th.

Map references Central America and the Caribbean Southeast Asia
Land use > Other 100%
Ranked 6th. 55% more than Philippines
64.67%
Ranked 214th.

Land boundaries 0 0
Land use > Permanent crops 0.0
Ranked 211th.
17.33%
Ranked 13th.

Note 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 the Philippine archipelago is made up of 7,107 islands; favorably located in relation to many of Southeast Asia's main water bodies: the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, Sulu Sea, Celebes Sea, and Luzon Strait
Marine Coastline 8 km
Ranked 196th.
36,289 km
Ranked 5th. 4536 times more than Navassa 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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