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Geography Stats: compare key data on Netherlands & Tromelin 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
  • 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 > 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.
  • 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 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
  • Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
STAT Netherlands Tromelin Island HISTORY
Area > Comparative slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Area > Comparative to US places slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Area > Land 33,883 sq km
Ranked 133th. 33883 times more than Tromelin Island
1 sq km
Ranked 18th.
Area > Total 41,543 sq km
Ranked 136th. 41543 times more than Tromelin Island
1 sq km
Ranked 16th.
Climate temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters tropical
Coastline 451 km
Ranked 113th. 122 times more than Tromelin Island
3.7 km
Ranked 224th.
Elevation extremes > Highest point 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) unnamed location 7 m
Geographic coordinates 52 30 N, 5 45 E 15 52 S, 54 25 E
Land use > Other 74.04%
Ranked 191st.
100%
Ranked 12th. 35% more than Netherlands

Location Western Europe, bordering the North Sea, between Belgium and Germany Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar
Map references Europe <a href="/region/AFR" >Africa</a>
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 170th. The same as Tromelin Island
12 nautical mile
Ranked 2nd.
Natural resources natural gas, petroleum, peat, limestone, salt, sand and gravel, arable land fish
Population density 466.45 people per sqkm
Ranked 18th.
0.0
Ranked 241st.
Terrain mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some hills in southeast low, flat, and sandy; likely volcanic
Note located at mouths of three major European rivers (Rhine, Maas or Meuse, and Schelde) climatologically important location for forecasting cyclones; wildlife sanctuary (seabirds, tortoises)

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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