The CIA World Factbook Edition 1991 Geography
Area In 35 editions of 36.
Area was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1991 edition carries it in 247 entries, in its Geography section, under the heading “Total area”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 1991 edition
- 247
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
Published as “Area” (1993 to 2025), “Total area” (1990 to 1992) and “Land area” (1992).
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World
1 entryAfrica
61 entriesGlorioso Islands
- 5 km2;
- land area: 5 km2;
- includes Ile Glorieuse, Ile du Lys, Verte Rocks, Wreck Rock, and South Rock
Mauritius
- 1,860 km2;
- land area: 1,850 km2;
- includes Agalega Islands, Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon), and Rodrigues
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- 410 km2;
- land area: 410 km2;
- includes Ascension, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, and Tristan da Cunha
South Africa
- 1,221,040 km2;
- land area: 1,221,040 km2;
- includes Walvis Bay, Marion Island, and Prince Edward Island
Antarctic Region
5 entriesFrench Southern and Antarctic Lands
- 7,781 km2;
- land area: 7,781 km2;
- includes Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Crozet;
- excludes Terre Adelie claim of about 500,000 km2 in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- 4,066 km2;
- land area: 4,066 km2;
- includes Shag and Clerke Rocks
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
14 entriesJapan
- 377,835 km2;
- land area: 374,744 km2;
- includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okinotori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
Central America and the Caribbean
32 entriesNetherlands Antilles
- 960 km2;
- land area: 960 km2;
- includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin)
Europe
36 entriesDenmark
- 43,070 km2;
- land area: 42,370 km2;
- includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
France
- 547,030 km2;
- land area: 545,630 km2;
- includes Corsica and the rest of metropolitan France, but excludes the overseas administrative divisions
Germany
- 356,910 km2;
- land area: 349,520 km2;
- comprises the formerly separate Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and Berlin following formal unification on 3 October 1990
Guernsey
- 194 km2;
- land area: 194 km2;
- includes Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and some other smaller islands
Spain
- 504,750 km2;
- land area: 499,400 km2;
- includes Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, and five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberania) on and off the coast of Morocco--Ceuta, Mellila, Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera
Middle East
18 entriesWest Bank
- 5,860 km2;
- land area: 5,640 km2;
- includes West Bank, East Jerusalem, Latrun Salient, Jerusalem No Man's Land, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus
Yemen
- 527,970 km2;
- land area: 527,970 km2;
- includes Perim, Socotra, the former Yemen Arab Republic (YAR or North Yemen), and the former People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (PDRY or South Yemen)
North America
6 entriesSaint Pierre and Miquelon
- 242 km2;
- land area: 242 km2;
- includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups
United States
- 9,372,610 km2;
- land area: 9,166,600 km2;
- includes only the 50 states and District of Colombia
Oceania
34 entriesCoral Sea Islands
undetermined; includes numerous small islands and reefs scattered over a sea area of about 1 million km2, with Willis Islets the most important
Kiribati
- 717 km2;
- land area: 717 km2;
- includes three island groups--Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands
Marshall Islands
- 181.3 km2;
- land area: 181.3 km2;
- includes the atolls of Bikini, Eniwetak, and Kwajalein
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- 702 km2;
- land area: 702 km2;
- includes Pohnpei, Truk, Yap, and Kosrae
New Zealand
- 268,680 km2;
- land area: 268,670 km2;
- includes Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands
Wallis and Futuna
- 274 km2;
- land area: 274 km2;
- includes Ile Uvea (Wallis Island), Ile Futuna (Futuna Island), Ile Alofi, and 20 islets
South America
14 entriesBrazil
- 8,511,965 km2;
- land area: 8,456,510 km2;
- includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo
Chile
- 756,950 km2;
- land area: 748,800 km2;
- includes Isla de Pascua (Easter Island) and Isla Sala y Gomez
Colombia
- 1,138,910 km2;
- land area: 1,038,700 km2;
- includes Isla de Malpelo, Roncador Cay, Serrana Bank, and Serranilla Bank
Falkland Islands now Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- 12,170 km2;
- land area: 12,170 km2;
- includes the two main islands of East and West Falkland and about 200 small islands
Southeast Asia
18 entriesAshmore and Cartier Islands
- 5 km2;
- land area: 5 km2;
- includes Ashmore Reef (West, Middle, and East Islets) and Cartier Island
Spratly Islands
- less than 5 km2;
- land area: less than 5 km2;
- includes 100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over the South China Sea
Oceans
4 entriesArctic Ocean
14,056,000 km2; includes Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Atlantic Ocean
82,217,000 km2; includes Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, Drake Passage, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Indian Ocean
73,600,000 km2; Arabian Sea, Bass Strait, Bay of Bengal, Java Sea, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Malacca, Timor Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Pacific Ocean
165,384,000 km2; includes Arafura Sea, Banda Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Makassar Strait, Philippine Sea, Ross Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, and other tributary water bodies
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1991, “Area”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/area/1991.