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The total land area is 300,000 square kilometers (115,831 sq mi), [1] [11] [12] [2] [3] with cadastral survey data suggesting it may be larger. [13] This makes it the fifth largest island country in the world. [9] Only approximately 1,000 of its islands are populated, and fewer than one-half of these are larger than 2.5 square kilometers (1 sq mi).
Dymaxion map of the world with the 30 largest countries and territories by area This is a list of the world's countries and their dependencies , ranked by total area, including land and water. This list includes entries that are not limited to those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which covers sovereign states and dependent territories .
The Philippines, [f] officially the Republic of the Philippines, [g] is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. In the western Pacific Ocean , it consists of 7,641 islands , with a total area of roughly 300,000 square kilometers, which are broadly categorized in three main geographical divisions from north to south: Luzon , Visayas , and ...
This is one of a series of comprehensive lists of continents, countries, and first level administrative country subdivisions such as states, provinces, and territories, as well as certain political and geographic features of substantial area. [1]
The 50 largest islands have a combined area of around 321,000 square kilometers (124,000 sq mi) and a combined population of about 100.9 million (2015); thus they contain about 99% of the Philippines' total land area and total population (2015). Combined population of Luzon and Mindanao accounts for 80% of total population of the Philippines.
The Philippines has 7,641 islands comprising the Philippine archipelago. [2] The zone's coordinates are between 116° 40', and 126° 34' E longitude and 4° 40' and 21° 10' N latitude . It is bordered by the Philippine Sea [ 3 ] to the east and north, the South China Sea [ 4 ] to the west, and the Celebes Sea [ 5 ] to the south.
Geographic entity: Area (km 2): Notes: Ouaka: 49,900: Prefecture of the Central African Republic. Smolensk Oblast 49,800: Federal subject of Russia. Bago Region: 49,787: Second largest region of Myanmar, fourth largest administrative entity (Myanmar has certain administrative divisions titled as Regions, and others titled as States).
Area (km 2) Notes: Dutch Caribbean: 999: Dutch islands in the Caribbean. These include the constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands--Aruba, Curaçao and Sint Maarten, and the three special municipalities of Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius. Nagjuttuuq: 997: Island part of the Arctic Archipelago. Thurgau: 991: Canton of ...