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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

For my friend, Tha Maung: Is Arakan That Small?







I have a friend. He is also an Arakanese and his name is Tha Maung. When we have conversation, sometimes we argue about our Arakanland is very tiny or not. When I say that many countries in the world are smaller than Arakan, he always say that ‘yes it is, but no more than twenty countries.’

Last week, I borrowed a book, ‘PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD,’ which was published in 2002. When I look around this book, I found many countries are much smaller than our land, Arakan. I remember Tha Maung and I make this list of the countries those are smaller than Arakan, is for him.

You may amaze, Tha Maung, there are sixty-one countries in the world, smaller than Arakan, which has area of more than 14,000 sq. miles and about 6 millions of population.

Countries of the World, which are smaller than Arakan:

EUROPE

(1)
Country: Albania
Area: 10,600 sq. miles
Population: 3,510,484

(2)
Country: Andora
Area: 174 sq. miles
Population: 67,627

(3)
Country: Belgium
Area: 11,700 sq. miles
Population: 10,258,768

(4)
Country: Liechtenstein
Area: 60 sq. miles
Population: 31,528

(5)
Country: Luxembourg
Area: 100 sq. miles
Population: 442,972

(6)
Country: Macedonia
Area: 9900 sq. miles
Population: 2,046,209

(7)
Country: Malta
Area: 120 sq. miles
Population: 394,583

(8)
Country: Moldova
Area: 13,000 sq. miles
Population: 4,431,570

(9)
Country: Monaco
Area: 0.75 sq. miles
Population: 31,842
(10)
Country: Netherlands
Area: 13100 sq. miles
Population: 15,981,472

(11)
Country: San Marino
Area: 20 sq. miles
Population: 27,336

(12)
Country: Slovenia
Area: 7,800 sq. miles
Population: 1,930,132

(13)
Country: Vatican City
Area: 108.7 acres
Population: 870



NORTH / LATIN AMERICA

(14)
Country: Antigua and Barbuda
Area: 170 sq. miles
Population: 66,970

(15)
Country: Bahamas
Area: 3,900 sq. miles
Population: 297,852

(16)
Country: Barbados
Area: 170 sq. miles
Population: 275,330

(17)
Country: Belize
Area: 8,800 sq. miles
Population: 256,062

(18)
Country: Dominica
Area: 300 sq. miles
Population: 70,786

(19)
Country: El Salvador
Area: 8,000 sq. miles
Population: 6,237,662

(20)
Country: Haiti
Area: 10,600 sq. miles
Population: 6,964,594

(21)
Country: Jamaica
Area: 4,200 sq. miles
Population: 2,665,636

(22)
Country: St. Kitts and Nevis
Area: 104 sq. miles
Population: 38,756

(23)
Country: St. Lucia
Area: 104 sq. miles
Population: 158,178

(24)
Country: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Area: 130 sq. miles
Population: 115,942

(25)
Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Area: 2,000 sq. miles
Population: 1,169,682



AFRICA

(26)
Country: Burundi
Area: 9,900 sq. miles
Population: 6,223,897

(27)
Country: Cape Verde
Area: 1,600 sq. miles
Population: 405,163

(28)
Country: Comoros
Area: 800 sq. miles
Population: 596,202

(29)
Country: Djibouti
Area: 8,500 sq. miles
Population: 460,700

(30)
Country: Equatorial Guinea
Area: 10,800 sq. miles
Population: 486,060

(31)
Country: The Gambia
Area: 3,900 sq. miles
Population: 1,411,205

(32)
Country: Guinea-Bissau
Area: 10,800 sq. miles
Population: 1,315,833

(33)
Country: Lesotho
Area: 11,700 sq. miles
Population: 2,177,062

(34)
Country: Mauritius
Area: 700 sq. miles
Population: 1,189,825

(35)
Country: Rwanda
Area: 9,600 sq. miles
Population: 7,312,756

(36)
Country: Sao Tome and Principe
Area: 400 sq. miles
Population: 165,034

(37)
Country: Seychelles
Area: 176 sq. miles
Population: 79,715

(38)
Country: Swaziland
Area: 6,600 sq. miles
Population: 1,104,343



ASIA

(39)
Country: Armenia
Area: 11,500
Population: 3,336,100

(40)
Country: Bahrain
Area: 240 sq. miles
Population: 645,361

(41)
Country: Cyprus
Area: 3,600 sq. miles
Population: 762,887

(42)
Country: Israel
Area: 7,800 sq. miles
Population: 5,938,093

(43)
Country: Kuwait
Area: 6,800 sq. miles
Population: 2,041,961

(44)
Country: Lebanon
Area: 3,900 sq. miles
Population: 3,627,774

(45)
Country: Maldives
Area: 100 sq. miles
Population: 310,764

(46)
Country: Qatar
Area: 4,200 sq. miles
Population: 769,152

(47)
Country: Brunei
Area: 2,000 sq. miles
Population: 343,653

(48)
Country: East Timor
Area: 5,641
Population: 920,000

(49)
Country: Singapore
Area: 250 sq. miles
Population: 4,300,419

(50)
Country: Taiwan
Area: 12,400
Population: 22,370,461


AUSTRALIA AND PACIFIC

(51)
Country: Federated States of Micronesia
Area: 271 sq. miles
Population: 134,597

(52)
Country: Fiji
Area: 7,000 sq. miles
Population: 844,330

(53)
Country: Kiribati
Area: 277 sq. miles
Population: 94,149

(54)
Country: Marshall Islands
Area: 70 sq. miles
Population: 70,822

(55)
Country: Nauru
Area: 8 sq. miles
Population: 12,088

(56)
Country: Palau
Area: 177 sq. miles
Population: 19,092

(57)
Country: Samoa
Area: 1,100 sq. miles
Population: 179,058

(58)
Country: Solomon Islands
Area: 10,600 sq. miles
Population: 480,442

(59)
Country: Tonga
Area: 289 sq. miles
Population: 104,227

(60)
Country: Tuvalu
Area: 10 sq. miles
Population: 10,991

(61)
Country: Vanuatu
Area: 5,700 sq. miles
Population: 192,910


Photo:

http://www.arakan.org/web/images/map_of_arakan.gif
http://www.pandaw.com/images/products/landtours/myanmar/Ancient%20Arakan.jpg
http://myanmartravelinformation.com/mti-other-destinations/images/rakhine-map.jpg

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