Geography Stats: compare key data on South Sudan & United States
Definitions
- Area > Comparative: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
- 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.
- Note: This entry includes miscellaneous geographic information of significance not included elsewhere.
- Highest point: Name of country’s highest point.
- Land area > Square miles: Country land area.
- Land boundaries > Border countries: Length of land boundaries by border country
- Land boundaries > Total: The total length of all land boundaries and the individual lengths for each of the contiguous border countries
- 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.
- Natural resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
- Terrain: A brief description of the topography
- Capital: Country capital.
- Marine Coastline: Length of each country's coastline in kilometers.
- Border to area ratio: The ratio of a country's land border to its surface area.
- Highest point elevation: Name of country’s highest point.
- Highest town: Name of country’s highest permanent settlement, which is occupied year-round.
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Lowest point altitude:
Altitude.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
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Lowest point:
Lowest point.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
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Continent or sub continent:
Within Continent / Subcontinent.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: List of countries by highest point (Sovereign, fully recognized countries); British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; CIA Factbook: List of countries by coastline size; Wikipedia: List of countries and territories by border/area ratio (Border/area ratio); Wikipedia: List of highest towns by country (Sovereign, fully recognized countries); Wikipedia: List of countries by lowest point; Wikipedia: List of political and geographic borders (Countries)
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