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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 by land, water, and total area, ranked by total area. The entries in this list include, but are not limited to, those in the ISO 3166-1 standard, which includes sovereign states and dependent territories.
The world known to its population before contact with the "New World" (the Americas). Afro-Eurasia: 84,211,532: Largest contiguous landmass. Holarctic: 77,000,000: Biogeographic realm that encompasses the majority of habitats found throughout the northern continents of the world. Atlantic Ocean excluding adjacent seas: 76,762,000: Second ...
The final number is the total number of unique sovereign states [a] that the country or territory shares a maritime boundary with. Footnotes are provided to provide clarity regarding the status of certain countries and territories. States with a dagger (†) are landlocked states.
The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica ) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
Maps exhibiting the world's oceanic waters. A continuous body of water encircling Earth, the World/Global Ocean is divided into a number of principal areas. Five oceanic divisions are usually recognized: Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic, and Southern/Antarctic; the last two listed are sometimes consolidated into the first three.
The regime of archipelagic sea lanes passage (ASLP) is specific to archipelagic waters and is similar to the transit passage for the international straits: both ships and aircraft can use the archipelagic waters, the right of passage is non-suspensible, submarines can navigate while submerged, etc. Article 54 in particular explicitly incorporates Articles 39, 30, 42, and 44 (that cover the ...
The entire ocean, containing 97% of Earth's water, spans 70.8% of Earth's surface, [8] making it Earth's global ocean or world ocean. [23] [25] This makes Earth, along with its vibrant hydrosphere a "water world" [43] [44] or "ocean world", [45] [46] particularly in Earth's early history when the ocean is thought to have possibly covered Earth ...
Largest city Sovereign state Area Population Rank within sovereign state Population density Map 73 North Darfur: Al-Fashir Sudan: 296,420 km 2: 1,583,179 2nd 5.0/km 2: 74 Arizona: Phoenix United States: 295,234 km 2: 7,151,502 6th 24/km 2: 75 Nevada: Carson City: Las Vegas United States: 286,382 km 2: 3,104,614 7th 10.8/km 2: 76 Rio Grande do ...