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Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Heard Island and McDonald Islands is a territory in Antarctic. It covers 412 square kilometres.
Where is Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
Heard Island and McDonald Islands lies in Antarctic, on the continent of Antarctic.
It sits in the southern half of the world, roughly 5 911 km from the equator.
Its coastline is about 102 km long.
It has no land neighbours — every border it has is with the sea.
How big is Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
Heard Island and McDonald Islands covers 412 square kilometres.
Luxembourg is about 6.3 times bigger.
Who lives in Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
People here speak English.
The land of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Its coast runs for about 102 km. Walking it end to end, at twenty kilometres a day, would take roughly 5 days.
It lies between the tropics and the poles, which is the single biggest reason its weather is the way it is.
What makes Heard Island and McDonald Islands different?
Websites from here often end in .hm.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands and the rest of the world
It takes up less than a hundredth of one per cent of all the land in the world.
A country, or a territory?
Heard Island and McDonald Islands is not an independent country but a territory. It has its own name, its own borders and often its own laws, but another country speaks for it abroad — it holds no seat of its own at the United Nations, for instance.
That is more common than it sounds. There are dozens of such places around the world: some sit far from the country they belong to, some right beside it. A few govern themselves almost completely and hand over only defence and foreign policy; others are held more closely. How much a territory decides for itself is settled case by case, never by one rule.
On this site territories get a page of their own, because children look them up and because other pages link to them. They are left out of the record lists, though: those rank only members of the United Nations, so that a ranking never mixes countries with places belonging to somebody else.
How big is Heard Island and McDonald Islands compared with the United States?
- The United States is about 22 749 times as big as Heard Island and McDonald Islands: 9 372 610 km² against 412 km².
- The United Kingdom is about 590 times as big as Heard Island and McDonald Islands: 242 900 km² against 412 km².
Questions children ask
How big is Heard Island and McDonald Islands?
Heard Island and McDonald Islands covers 412 square kilometres. Luxembourg is about 6.3 times bigger.
Which continent is Heard Island and McDonald Islands in?
Heard Island and McDonald Islands is in Antarctic.
Where these numbers come from
Borders and outlines: Natural Earth. Names, capitals, areas, languages and currencies: ISO 3166 data (world-countries). Population: World Bank, 2018. Every derived figure on this page (ranks, density, distance from the equator) is calculated from those values.
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