The CIA World Factbook Edition 1997 Geography
Area - comparative In 32 editions of 36.
Area - comparative was published in 32 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1997 edition carries it in 266 entries, in its Geography section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 1997 edition
- 266
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Area - comparative” (1997 to 2025), “Comparative area” (1990 to 1992), “Area--comparative” (1999) and “Area-comparative” (1998).
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World
1 entryAfrica
62 entriesCongo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
slightly less than one-fourth the size of US
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
slightly more than two times the size of Washington, DC
Antarctic Region
5 entriesSouth Georgia and the now South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
slightly larger than Rhode Island
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesCentral America and the Caribbean
32 entriesEurope
46 entriesSerbia and Montenegro
slightly smaller than Kentucky (Serbia is slightly larger than Maine; Montenegro is slightly smaller than Connecticut)
Middle East
17 entriesNorth America
6 entriesUnited States
- about one-half the size of Russia;
- about three-tenths the size of Africa;
- about one-half the size of South America (or slightly larger than Brazil);
- slightly larger than China;
- about two and one-half times the size of Western Europe
Oceania
34 entriesMicronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
four times the size of Washington, DC
South America
14 entriesSoutheast Asia
18 entriesOceans
4 entriesArctic Ocean
slightly less than 1.5 times the size of the US; smallest of the world's four oceans (after Pacific Ocean, Atlantic Ocean, and Indian Ocean)
Atlantic Ocean
- slightly less than nine times the size of the US;
- second-largest of the world's four oceans (after the Pacific Ocean, but larger than Indian Ocean or Arctic Ocean)
Indian Ocean
slightly less than eight times the size of the US; third-largest ocean (after the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Ocean, but larger than the Arctic Ocean)
Pacific Ocean
- about 18 times the size of the US;
- the largest ocean (followed by the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean);
- covers about one-third of the global surface;
- larger than the total land area of the world
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1997, “Area - comparative”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/area-comparative/1997.