Kosovo Geography Stats
Definitions
- Arable land > % of land area: Arable land (% of land area). Arable land includes land defined by the FAO as land under temporary crops (double-cropped areas are counted once), temporary meadows for mowing or for pasture, land under market or kitchen gardens, and land temporarily fallow. Land abandoned as a result of shifting cultivation is excluded.
- Area > Comparative: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
- Area > Total: Total area in square kilometers
- Area > Water: Total water area in square kilometers
- Border to area ratio: The ratio of a country's land border to its surface area.
- Climate: A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
- Coastline: The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
- Elevation extremes > Highest point: Highest point above sea level
- Elevation extremes > Lowest point: This entry is derived from Geography > Elevation extremes, which includes both the highest point and the lowest point.
- Geographic coordinates: This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources.
- Land boundaries > Border countries: Length of land boundaries by border country
- Land boundaries > Total: The total length of all land boundaries and the individual lengths for each of the contiguous border countries
- Location: The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
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Lowest point:
Lowest point.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
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Lowest point altitude:
Altitude.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
- Map references: The name of the CIA World Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
- Natural resources: A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
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Northernmost point:
Northernmost point.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
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Northernmost point latitude:
Latitude.
No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.
- Road density > Km of road per 100 sq. km of land area: Road density (km of road per 100 sq. km of land area). Road density is the ratio of the length of the country's total road network to the country's land area. The road network includes all roads in the country: motorways, highways, main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and other urban and rural roads.
- Terrain: A brief description of the topography
SOURCES: Food and Agriculture Organization; CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; Wikipedia: List of countries and territories by border/area ratio (Border/area ratio); CIA World Factbooks 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Wikipedia: List of countries by lowest point; Wikipedia: List of countries by northernmost point; International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and electronic files, except where noted.
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Kosovo Geography Profiles (Subcategories)
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