World Countries: Area, Population, and Population Density, 1997

COUNTRY	AREA (mi²)	POPULATION (mid-1996 est.)	DENSITY (pop/mi²)a
Afghanistan	251,826	22,664,136	90
Albania	11,100	3,249,136	293
Algeria	919,595	29,183,032	32
Andorra	175	67,509	386
Angola	481,354	10,342,899	21
Argentina	1,073,400	34,672,997	32
Armenia	11,506	3,463,574	301
Australia	2,966,155	18,260,863	6
Austria	32,377	8,013,614	248
Azerbaijan	33,436	7,676,953	230
Bahrain	267	590,042	2,210
Bangladesh	55,598	123,062,800	2,213
Barbados	166	257,030	1,548
Belarus	80,155	10,415,973	130
Belgium	11,783	10,131,863	860
Belize	8,866	219,296	25
Benin	43,475	5,709,529	131
Bhutan	18,200	1,822,625	100
Bolivia	424,165	7,165,257	17
Bosnia-Herzegovina	19,741	2,656,240	135
Botswana	231,800	1,477,630	6
Brazil	3,286,488	162,661,214	49
Brunei	2,226	299,939	135
Bulgaria	42,823	8,612,757	201
Burkina Faso	105,869	10,623,323	100
Burundi	10,745	5,943,057	553
Cambodia	69,898	10,600,000	152
Cameroon	183,569	14,261,557	78
Canada	3,849,674	29,857,369	8
Cape Verde	1,557	449,066	288
Central African Republic	240,535	3,274,426	14
Chad	495,755	6,976,845	14
Chile	292,135	14,333,258	49
China	3,689,631	1,210,004,956	328
Colombia	440,831	36,813,161	84
Comoros	863	569,237	660
Congo(Zaire)	905,446	46,498,539	51
Congo Republic	132,047	2,527,841	19
Costa Rica	19,730	3,463,083	176
Croatia	21,829	5,004,112	229
Cuba	42,804	11,007,446	257
Cyprus	3,593	736,636	205
Czech Republic	30,613	10,321,120	337
Denmark	16,638	5,210,833	313
Djibouti	8,958	427,642	48
Dominica	305	82,926	272
Dominican Republic	18,704	8,088,881	432
Ecuador	109,484	11,466,291	105
Egypt	386,662	65,375,107	169
El Salvador	8,124	5,828,987	718
Equatorial Guinea	10,831	431,282	40
Eritrea	45,300	3,909,628	86
Estonia	17,413	1,459,428	84
Ethiopia	483,123	57,171,682	118
Fiji	7,078	782,381	111
Finland	130,559	5,100,213	39
France	211,208	58,317,450	276
Gabon	103,347	1,172,798	11
Gambia	4,127	1,020,178	247
Georgia	26,911	5,219,810	194
Germany	137,882	83,536,115	606
Ghana	92,098	17,698,271	192
Greece	50,962	10,718,518	210
Grenada	133	94,961	714
Guatemala	42,042	11,177,614	268
Guinea	94,926	7,411,981	78
Guinea-Bissau	13,948	1,151,330	83
Guyana	83,000	712,091	9
Haiti	10,714	6,731,539	628
Honduras	43,277	5,605,193	130
Hungary	35,920	10,002,541	278
Iceland	36,769	268,369	7
India	1,237,062	952,107,694	770
Indonesia	742,410	206,611,600	278
Iran	632,457	66,094,264	105
Iraq	169,235	21,422,292	127
Ireland	27,137	3,562,902	131
Israelb	8,019	5,215,022	650
Italy	116,234	57,460,274	494
Ivory Coast	124,518	14,762,445	1,187
Jamaica	4,244	2,593,918	611
Japan	145,870	125,568,504	861
Jordan	35,135	4,212,152	120
Kazakhstan	1,049,156	16,916,463	16
Kenya	224,961	28,176,686	125
Korea,North	46,540	23,904,124	514
Korea,South	38,230	45,482,291	1,190
Kuwait	6,880	1,950,047	283
Kyrgyzstan	76,641	4,529,648	59
Laos	91,429	4,905,772	54
Latvia	24,595	2,468,982	100
Lebanon	4,015	3,776,317	941
Lesotho	11,720	1,970,781	168
Liberia	38,250	2,109,789	55
Libya	679,362	5,445,436	8
Liechtenstein	62	31,011	500
Lithuania	25,174	3,718,000	148
Luxembourg	998	406,901	408
Macedonia	9,928	2,104,035	212
Madagascar	226,658	13,670,507	60
Malawi	45,747	9,542,844	209
Malaysia	129,251	19,962,893	154
Maldives	115	270,758	2,354
Mali	478,767	9,653,261	20
Malta	122	372,314	3,052
Mauritania	395,956	2,336,048	6
Mauritius	788	1,139,047	1,445
Mexico	756,066	95,772,462	127
Micronesia	271	125,377	463
Moldova	13,012	4,463,847	343
Mongolia	604,829	2,496,617	4
Moroccoc	275,114	29,779,156	108
Mozambique	308,642	17,877,927	58
Myanmar (Burma)	261,228	49,975,625	191
Namibia	317,818	1,677,243	5
Nepal	56,827	22,094,033	389
Netherlands	16,133	15,531,940	963
New Zealand	103,519	3,547,983	34
Nicaragua	50,054	4,272,352	85
Niger	489,191	9,113,001	19
Nigeria	356,669	103,912,489	291
Norway	125,050	4,345,941	35
Oman	82,030	2,186,548	27
Pakistan	310,432	129,275,660	416
Panama	29,157	2,655,094	91
Papua New Guinea	178,704	4,394,537	25
Paraguay	157,048	5,504,146	35
Peru	496,225	24,523,408	49
Philippines	115,831	74,480,848	643
Poland	120,728	38,642,565	320
Portugal	35,516	9,865,114	278
Qatar	4,416	547,761	124
Romania	91,699	21,657,162	236
Russia	6,592,849	148,190,419	22
Rwanda	10,169	6,853,359	674
St. Kitts and Nevis	104	41,369	398
St. Lucia	238	157,862	663
St. Vincent/Grenadines	150	118,344	789
São Tomé and Principe	372	144,128	387
Saudi Arabia	830,000	19,409,058	23
Senegal	75,951	9,092,749	120
Seychelles	175	77,575	443
Sierra Leone	27,925	4,793,121	172
Singapore	246	3,396,924	13,809
Slovakia	18,933	5,374,362	284
Slovenia	7,819	1,951,433	250
Solomon Islands	10,954	412,902	38
Somalia	246,201	9,369,151	38
South Africa	433,680	41,743,459	96
Spain	194,885	38,853,397	199
Sri Lanka	24,962	18,553,074	743
Sudan	967,500	31,065,229	32
Suriname	63,251	436,418	7
Swaziland	6,704	998,730	149
Sweden	173,732	8,861,270	51
Switzerland	15,943	7,124,745	447
Syria	71,498	15,608,648	218
Taiwan	13,900	21,304,000	1,533
Tajikistan	55,251	5,916,373	107
Tanzania	364,900	29,058,470	80
Thailand	198,115	58,851,357	297
Togo	21,925	4,570,530	208
Trinidad and Tobago	1,980	1,272,385	643
Tunisia	63,170	9,019,687	143
Turkey	300,948	62,484,478	208
Turkmenistan	188,456	4,149,263	22
Uganda	93,104	20,158,176	217
Ukraine	233,090	50,864,009	218
United Arab Emirates	32,278	3,057,337	95
United Kingdom	94,248	58,489,975	621
United States	3,787,425	265,089,998	70
Uruguay	68,500	3,238,952	47
Uzbekistan	172,742	23,418,381	136
Venezuela	352,145	21,983,188	62
Vietnam	128,066	73,976,973	578
Yemen	205,356	13,483,178	66
Yugoslavia (Serbia-Montenegro)	26,913	10,611,558	394
Zambia	290,586	9,159,072	32
Zimbabwe	150,873	11,271,314	75

a Population densities as calculated by the UN. The figures are close to but not the same as may be derived by dividing the estimated 1996 population of a state by its area as shown in this table.

b The figures for Israel do not include the West Bank and Gaza. The former has an area of approximately 2,300 square miles,a population of 1.7 million,and a density of 746 persons per square mile; the latter has an area of 100 square miles,a population of over 900,000 persons,and an estimated population density of 7,600 persons per square mile.

c Figures for Morocco include Western Sahara,annexed by Morocco.

Sources: The Universal Almanac 1997 (Andrews and McMeel,Kansas City, MO 1997); Information Please Almanac, Atlas and Yearbook 1997 (Houghton Mifflin, Boston and New York, 1997); U.S. Census Bureau,World Population Profile (1997).

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