The largest state by area is Alaska, encompassing 665,384 square miles (1,723,337 square kilometers), while the smallest is Rhode Island, encompassing 1,545 square miles (4,002 square kilometers).

It covers an area of 9,757.53 square kilometers.

Covering an area of 5 square kilometers (2 sq.

It is the largest peninsula in the world, at 3,237,500 square kilometers (1,250,000 square miles).

This compares with 39 kilometers per 1,000 square kilometers in Ethiopia today and 71 per 1,000 in Senegal.

With an estimated area of 279,252 square kilometers, this region has an estimated density of 15.9 people per square kilometer.

They may extend over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of the Earth's surface.

We have facilities around there. You also have a buffer zone that's 17 square kilometers.

Until recently, the overlapping claims on the 4.6 square kilometers were not a serious issue.

PARIS Mali is a landlocked West African country of 15 million people, covering 1,240,000 square kilometers (478,800 square miles), three quarters of it desert.

The tar sands are hundreds of square kilometers of bitumen, a viscous and corrosive tarlike deposit.

Antarctica, though a huge continental archipelago, measuring 24 million square kilometers, and covered in ice that is 4 5 kilometers thick, is far from any inhabited continent.

North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about 4.8 of the planet's surface or about 16.5 of its land area.

Azerbaijan's four main islands in the Caspian Sea have a combined area of over thirty square kilometers.

The total area of snowfields and glaciers was estimated to be about 104 square kilometers in the early 1970s.

The forest covers an area of 30,000 dunams (30 square kilometers), and is the largest planted forest in Israel.

In 2009, when the U.N. reviewed progress, they discovered that almost 100 million square kilometers of seabed had been protected.

India s road density at the start of its Green Revolution in the 1970 s was 388 kilometers per 1,000 square kilometres.

On the eve of his death in 1557, the Portuguese empire spanned almost 1 billion acres (about 4 million square kilometers).

The largest territory in terms of both population and size is Puerto Rico, with 3,725,789 residents as of the 2010 Census and a total area of 5,325 square miles (13,792 square kilometers).

It occupied the area of approximately one million square kilometers, covering what is now Pakistan, Northwestern India and parts of Afghanistan and Iran.

At the same time, China has taken pains to remind India that it still claims a further 92,000 square kilometers, mainly in Arunachal Pradesh.

The combined land area of the Senkaku and Spratly Islands amounts to barely 11 square kilometers but the islands are surrounded by rich hydrocarbon reserves.

With a colossal and diverse geography of 1.2 million square kilometers, Colombia s dramatically inadequate infrastructure is as much a handicap for economic development as poor security.

Defined by the boundaries of the federal district, the Far East has an area of 6.2 million square kilometers over one third of Russia's total area.

After the Third partition of the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1795 Volhynia became the Volhynian Governorate of the Russian Empire and covered an area of 71,852.7 square kilometers.

In August, temperatures there climbed 12.5oC above the surrounding countryside, reaching 40oC a scorching heat that affected not only the downtown area, but also covered some 8,000 square kilometers.

China challenges Japanese control over more than seven square kilometers of islets called the Senkaku Islands in Japan, and the Diaoyu Islands in China in the East China Sea.

It is the smallest North African country, covering 163,000 square kilometers more or less twice the size of Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg and containing a population of 10.5 million.

But even for oft cited Bangladesh, scientists just this year showed that the country grows by 20 square kilometers each year, because river sedimentation win out over rising sea levels.

At 4.4 million square kilometers, it was the smallest ice cover since satellite observations began 40 years ago, with 40 less ice than in the 1970 s and 1980 s.

Its neighbors include Lithuania on the south (453 kilometers of common border), Estonia on the north (267 kilometers), Russia on the east (217 kilometers), and Belarus on the southeast (141 kilometers).

For instance, Chile and Peru, neighbors that have enjoyed sustained economic development over the past few years, remain at odds over approximately 38,000 square kilometers of sea located along their maritime border.

Malé, which is a small island of about two square kilometers, has a population of over 30,000 migrant workers. Most of them come from the neighbouring countries of Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh.

Had BP spilled hundreds of billions of barrels of bitumen across hundreds of square kilometers, environmentalists would rightly demand that no expense be spared to rid the dirt of every trace of oil.

Indeed, the ice cap s area has decreased by half since the 1980 s, when summer sea ice still extended over roughly seven million square kilometers, as opposed to less than four million today.

The IDF was also holding a corridor on the east bank of the Suez Canal, with three bridges across it, and occupying an area of 1,600 square kilometers inside Egypt as far south as Adabia.

The Andean Community has 98 million inhabitants living in an area of 4,700,000 square kilometers, whose Gross Domestic Product amounted to US 745.3 billion in 2005, including Venezuela, who was a member at that time.

We ran for 10 kilometers.

It's fifty kilometers to Paris.

It is located 13 kilometers inland from the Pacific coast and 770 kilometers from the nation's capital, Lima.

The national territory extends about 900 kilometers from east to west and 410 kilometers from north to south.

TOKYO Japan has been in the news lately, owing to its dispute with China over six square kilometers of barren islets in the East China Sea that Japan calls the Senkakus and China calls the Diaoyu Islands.

Vulnerability will increase further over the next two decades, as cities triple their built up land, to 600,000 square kilometers, often without basic infrastructure or policies to prevent construction and settlement on disaster prone and vulnerable sites.

We walked for about 6 kilometers.