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Kingman Reef Geography 2020

SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Kingman Reef Geography 2020
SOURCE: 2020 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on January 27, 2020

Location:
Oceania, reef in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and American Samoa

Geographic coordinates:
6 24 N, 162 22 W

Map references:
Oceania

Area:
total: 1 sq km
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land: 1 sq km
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water: 0 sq km
[see also: Area - water country ranks ]
country comparison to the world (CIA rank, may be based on non-current data): 257

Area - comparative:
about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC

Land boundaries:
0 km

Coastline:
3 km
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Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
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exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
[see also: Maritime claims - exclusive economic zone country ranks ]

Climate:
tropical; moderated by prevailing winds

Terrain:
low and nearly level

Natural resources:
terrestrial and aquatic wildlife

Natural hazards:
wet or awash most of the time, maximum elevation of about 1 meter makes Kingman Reef a maritime hazard

Environment - current issues:
illegal foreign fishing; marine debris washing up on reef can entangle and kill wildlife

Geography - note:
barren coral atoll with deep interior lagoon; closed to the public


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Kingman Reef on this page is re-published from the 2020 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kingman Reef Geography 2020 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kingman Reef Geography 2020 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may have the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assigns counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order.






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