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Geography Stats: compare key data on Niue & Svalbard

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 > 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Area > Water > Per capita: Total water area in square kilometers Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.
  • Area > Total > Per capita: Total area in square kilometers Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
STAT Niue Svalbard HISTORY
Area > Comparative 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC slightly smaller than West Virginia
Area > Comparative to US places 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC slightly smaller than West Virginia
Area > Land 260 sq km
Ranked 205th.
61,020 sq km
Ranked 122nd. 235 times more than Niue

Area > Land > Per capita 180.06 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 15th.
28,184.76 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st. 157 times more than Niue

Area > Total 260 sq km
Ranked 212th.
62,045 sq km
Ranked 126th. 239 times more than Niue

Area > Water 0.0
Ranked 192nd.
0.0
Ranked 233th.

Climate tropical; modified by southeast trade winds arctic, tempered by warm North Atlantic Current; cool summers, cold winters; North Atlantic Current flows along west and north coasts of Spitsbergen, keeping water open and navigable most of the year
Coastline 64 km
Ranked 174th.
3,587 km
Ranked 34th. 56 times more than Niue

Elevation extremes > Highest point unnamed elevation near Mutalau settlement 68 m Newtontoppen 1,717 m
Geographic coordinates 19 02 S, 169 52 W 78 00 N, 20 00 E
Land use > Arable land 3.85%
Ranked 159th.
0.0
Ranked 240th.

Location Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga Northern Europe, islands between the Arctic Ocean, Barents Sea, Greenland Sea, and Norwegian Sea, north of Norway
Natural hazards typhoons ice floes often block the entrance to Bellsund (a transit point for coal export) on the west coast and occasionally make parts of the northeastern coast inaccessible to maritime traffic
Natural resources fish, arable land coal, iron ore, copper, zinc, phosphate, wildlife, fish
Terrain steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau wild, rugged mountains; much of high land ice covered; west coast clear of ice about one-half of the year; fjords along west and north coasts
Maritime claims > Territorial sea 12 nautical mile
Ranked 88th. 3 times more than Svalbard
4 nautical mile
Ranked 183th.

Elevation extremes > Lowest point Pacific Ocean 0 m Arctic Ocean 0 m
Population density 8.09 people per sqkm
Ranked 208th. 202 times more than Svalbard
0.04 people per sqkm
Ranked 230th.
Map references Oceania Arctic Region
Land use > Other 84.62%
Ranked 145th.
100%
Ranked 22nd. 18% more than Niue

Land boundaries 0 0
Land use > Permanent crops 11.54%
Ranked 23th.
0.0
Ranked 239th.

Note one of world's largest coral islands northernmost part of the Kingdom of Norway; consists of nine main islands; glaciers and snowfields cover 60% of the total area; Spitsbergen Island is the site of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a seed repository established by the Global Crop Diversity Trust and the Norwegian Government
Marine Coastline 64 km
Ranked 174th.
3,587 km
Ranked 34th. 56 times more than Niue
Area > Water > Per capita 0.0
Ranked 177th.
0.0
Ranked 207th.
Area > Total > Per capita 180.06 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 16th.
28,184.76 sq km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st. 157 times more than Niue

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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