[Alexrk]

I guess, I’ve forgotten to add the territorial water zone (22 km) – so that could explain the difference to the figures from CIA World FactBook

[Alexrk]

Thank you very much for the info about LSIB.

I tried the Data from Natural Earth 1:10 Mio and LSIB now to calculate the area:

LSIB: ~ 458 000 km²

NEA: ~ 458 300 km²

But several other sources like the CIA World Factbook say something about 527 968 km² or 537.000 km²

The German Auswärtiges Amt says, that the area is currently not known exactly but guessed between 478 000 und 533 000

I try to find out, whether those figures in CIA WF (et al.) are wrong or the boundaries in the GIS data sets are wrong. At some point there must be a larger error.

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