The CIA World Factbook Edition 1998 Geography
Area In 35 editions of 36.
Area was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1998 edition carries it in 266 entries, in its Geography section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 1998 edition
- 266
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2025
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World
1 entryWorld
- total:
- 510.072 million sq km
- land:
- 148.94 million sq km
- water:
- 361.132 million sq km
note: 70.8% of the world's surface is water, 29.2% is land
Africa
62 entriesCongo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 2,345,410 sq km
- land:
- 2,267,600 sq km
- water:
- 77,810 sq km
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 342,000 sq km
- land:
- 341,500 sq km
- water:
- 500 sq km
Glorioso Islands
- total:
- 5 sq km
- land:
- 5 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Ile Glorieuse, Ile du Lys, Verte Rocks, Wreck Rock, and South Rock
Mauritius
- total:
- 1,860 sq km
- land:
- 1,850 sq km
- water:
- 10 sq km
note: includes Agalega Islands, Cargados Carajos Shoals (Saint Brandon), and Rodrigues
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total:
- 410 sq km
- land:
- 410 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Ascension, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, and Tristan da Cunha Island
South Africa
- total:
- 1,219,912 sq km
- land:
- 1,219,912 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island)
Tanzania
- total:
- 945,090 sq km
- land:
- 886,040 sq km
- water:
- 59,050 sq km
note: includes the islands of Mafia, Pemba, and Zanzibar
Antarctic Region
5 entriesAntarctica
- total:
- 14 million sq km
- land:
- 14 million sq km (280,000 sq km ice-free, 13.72 million sq km ice-covered) (est.)
note: second-smallest continent (after Australia)
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
- total:
- 7,781 sq km
- land:
- 7,781 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Ile Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen; excludes "Adelie Land" claim of about 500,000 sq km in Antarctica that is not recognized by the US
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- total:
- 4,066 sq km
- land:
- 4,066 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Shag Rocks, Clerke Rocks, Bird Island
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesAzerbaijan
- total:
- 86,600 sq km
- land:
- 86,100 sq km
- water:
- 500 sq km
note: includes the exclave of Naxcivan Autonomous Republic and the Nagorno-Karabakh region; the region's autonomy was abolished by Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet on 26 November 1991
British Indian Ocean Territory
- total:
- 60 sq km
- land:
- 60 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes the entire Chagos Archipelago
Japan
- total:
- 377,835 sq km
- land:
- 374,744 sq km
- water:
- 3,091 sq km
note: includes Bonin Islands (Ogasawara-gunto), Daito-shoto, Minami-jima, Okino-tori-shima, Ryukyu Islands (Nansei-shoto), and Volcano Islands (Kazan-retto)
Central America and the Caribbean
32 entriesBritish Virgin Islands
- total:
- 150 sq km
- land:
- 150 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes the island of Anegada
Guadeloupe
- total:
- 1,780 sq km
- land:
- 1,706 sq km
- water:
- 74 sq km
note: Guadeloupe is an archipelago of nine inhabited islands, including Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Desirade, Iles des Saintes, Saint Barthelemy, and part of Saint Martin
Netherlands Antilles
- total:
- 960 sq km
- land:
- 960 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Eustatius, and Sint Maarten (Dutch part of the island of Saint Martin)
Europe
46 entriesDenmark
- total:
- 43,094 sq km
- land:
- 42,394 sq km
- water:
- 700 sq km
note: includes the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea and the rest of metropolitan Denmark, but excludes the Faroe Islands and Greenland
Estonia
- total:
- 45,226 sq km
- land:
- 43,211 sq km
- water:
- 2,015 sq km
note: includes 1,520 islands in the Baltic Sea
France
- total:
- 547,030 sq km
- land:
- 545,630 sq km
- water:
- 1,400 sq km
note: includes only metropolitan France, but excludes the overseas administrative divisions
Germany
- total:
- 356,910 sq km
- land:
- 349,520 sq km
- water:
- 7,390 sq km
note: includes the formerly separate Federal Republic of Germany, the German Democratic Republic, and Berlin, following formal unification on 3 October 1990
Guernsey
- total:
- 194 sq km
- land:
- 194 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and some other smaller islands
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia
- total:
- 25,333 sq km
- land:
- 24,856 sq km
- water:
- 477 sq km
Portugal
- total:
- 92,391 sq km
- land:
- 91,951 sq km
- water:
- 440 sq km
note: includes Azores and Madeira Islands
Serbia and Montenegro
- total:
- 102,350 sq km (Serbia 88,412 sq km; Montenegro 13,938 sq km)
- land:
- 102,136 sq km (Serbia 88,412 sq km; Montenegro 13,724 sq km)
- water:
- 214 sq km (Serbia 0 sq km; Montenegro 214 sq km)
Spain
- total:
- 504,750 sq km
- land:
- 499,400 sq km
- water:
- 5,350 sq km
note: 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
United Kingdom
- total:
- 244,820 sq km
- land:
- 241,590 sq km
- water:
- 3,230 sq km
note: includes Rockall and Shetland Islands
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
- total:
- 9,250 sq km (note-3,355 sq km are in the Turkish Cypriot area)
- land:
- 9,240 sq km
- water:
- 10 sq km
Syria
- total:
- 185,180 sq km
- land:
- 184,050 sq km
- water:
- 1,130 sq km
note: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory
West Bank
- total:
- 5,860 sq km
- land:
- 5,640 sq km
- water:
- 220 sq km
note: includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem No Man's Land are also included only as a means of depicting the entire area occupied by Israel in 1967
Yemen
- total:
- 527,970 sq km
- land:
- 527,970 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: 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
- total:
- 242 sq km
- land:
- 242 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups
United States
- total:
- 9,629,091 sq km
- land:
- 9,158,960 sq km
- water:
- 470,131 sq km
note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia
Oceania
34 entriesAmerican Samoa
- total:
- 199 sq km
- land:
- 199 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Rose Island and Swains Island
Australia
- total:
- 7,686,850 sq km
- land:
- 7,617,930 sq km
- water:
- 68,920 sq km
note: includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island
Coral Sea Islands
- total:
- less than 3 sq km
- land:
- less than 3 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes numerous small islands and reefs scattered over a sea area of about 1 million sq km, with the Willis Islets the most important
Kiribati
- total:
- 717 sq km
- land:
- 717 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes three island groups-Gilbert Islands, Line Islands, Phoenix Islands
Marshall Islands
- total:
- 181.3 sq km
- land:
- 181.3 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, and Kwajalein
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- total:
- 702 sq km
- land:
- 702 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Pohnpei (Ponape), Truk (Chuuk) Islands, Yap Islands, and Kosrae
Midway Islands
- total:
- 6.2 sq km
- land:
- 6.2 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Eastern Island and Sand Island
New Zealand
- total:
- 268,680 sq km
- land:
- 268,670 sq km
- water:
- 10 sq km
note: includes Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands
Northern Mariana Islands
- total:
- 477 sq km
- land:
- 477 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes 14 islands including Saipan, Rota, and Tinian
Wallis and Futuna
- total:
- 274 sq km
- land:
- 274 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Ile Uvea (Wallis Island), Ile Futuna (Futuna Island), Ile Alofi, and 20 islets
South America
14 entriesBrazil
- total:
- 8,511,965 sq km
- land:
- 8,456,510 sq km
- water:
- 55,455 sq km
note: includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo
Chile
- total:
- 756,950 sq km
- land:
- 748,800 sq km
- water:
- 8,150 sq km
note: includes Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Isla Sala y Gomez
Colombia
- total:
- 1,138,910 sq km
- land:
- 1,038,700 sq km
- water:
- 100,210 sq km
note: includes Isla de Malpelo, Roncador Cay, Serrana Bank, and Serranilla Bank
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
- total:
- 12,173 sq km
- land:
- 12,173 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes the two main islands of East and West Falkland and about 200 small islands
Southeast Asia
18 entriesAshmore and Cartier Islands
- total:
- 5 sq km
- land:
- 5 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes Ashmore Reef (West, Middle, and East Islets) and Cartier Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- total:
- 14 sq km
- land:
- 14 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes the two main islands of West Island and Home Island
Spratly Islands
- total:
- less than 5 sq km
- land:
- less than 5 sq km
- water:
- 0 sq km
note: includes 100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over a large area of the central South China Sea
Taiwan
- total:
- 35,980 sq km
- land:
- 32,260 sq km
- water:
- 3,720 sq km
note: includes the Pescadores, Matsu, and Quemoy
Oceans
4 entriesArctic Ocean
- total:
- 14.056 million sq km
note: includes Baffin Bay, Barents Sea, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, East Siberian Sea, Greenland Sea, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait, Kara Sea, Laptev Sea, Northwest Passage, and other tributary water bodies
Atlantic Ocean
- total:
- 82.217 million sq km
note: includes Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Caribbean Sea, Davis Strait, Denmark Strait, Drake Passage, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Norwegian Sea, Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies
Indian Ocean
- total:
- 73.6 million sq km
note: includes Andaman Sea, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, Great Australian Bight, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Mozambique Channel, Persian Gulf, Red Sea, Strait of Malacca, and other tributary water bodies
Pacific Ocean
- total:
- 165.384 million sq km
note: includes Bali Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Flores Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Tonkin, Java Sea, Philippine Sea, Ross Sea, Savu Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, Timor Sea, and other tributary water bodies
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1998, “Area”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/area/1998.