In 2006, the hole was a record 29 million square kilometers (11.2 million square miles), larger than North America, the ESA said.
With 1.37 million square miles of ocean holdings, Kiribati has been vulnerable to overtures from the EU to sign a separate, less-stringent access pact.
After the record low posted on August 26, Arctic sea ice levels continued to drop and is now below 4.00 million square kilometers (1.54 million square miles).
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The Horn is a region of more or less than a million square miles with between 100 million and 200 million people, depending on how you define it.
In a state with 700, 000 people spread over half a million square miles, Palin had to deal with issues that wouldn't be unfamiliar to a small-town mayor in other states.
This year, the size of the thinned area reached about 27 million square kilometers (10.4 million square miles), compared to 25 million square kilometers (9.65 million square miles) in 2007.
The Antarctic ozone hole's current size is approximately 10 million square miles (26 million square kilometres.) It is approximately three times the area of Australia and is the largest ozone hole ever.
Operation Atalanta has some two dozen ships from EU nations - including Britain, France, Germany and Italy - patrolling an area of about two million square miles off the Horn of Africa.
If vessels want to catch the tuna in the PNA's rich waters, they must agree to host an independent monitor onboard and stay out of designated high seas pockets that extend for 1.7 million square miles.
In 2009, the EU launched Operation Atalanta, with over 20 ships from EU nations - including Britain, France, Germany and Italy - patrolling an area of about two million square miles off the Horn of Africa.
But the brazen theft of the Saldanha just 60 miles (97km) from the Northumberland on Sunday illustrates the inevitable weaknesses that still exist when a handful of warships attempt to cover a million square miles of water.
The area involved -- off the coast of Somalia and Kenya as well as the Gulf of Aden -- equals more than 1.1 million square miles, roughly four times the size of Texas, or the size of the Mediterranean and Red Sea combined.
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Mauritania is a vast Saharan wasteland of more than a million square kilometres (400, 000 square miles).
Earlier this month NSICD scientists reported that winter sea ice cover in the Arctic was just 14.7 million square kilometers (5.7m square miles) -- slightly better than the all-time low 14.5m square kilometers (5.6m square miles) in 2006 -- but well short of the 15.7m average for 1979-2000.
One trillion dollars spread out flat would require 111 billion square feet: equivalent to about 2.5 million acres, 4 thousand square miles, or pretty much all of the State of Connecticut.
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But officials say 12 million hectares (46, 300 square miles) have been set aside for native people, and another 15 million hectares for national reserves.
Manhattan island has a population of about 1.6 million people, and is 23 square miles.
The Verizon LTE in Rural America program now features eighteen carriers in fourteen states across America covering 2.7 million people and 144, 000 square miles.
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Greater Manchester Police serves more than 2.5 million people over an area of 500 square miles.
With a population of 9.8 million people spread over 4, 058 square miles, L.A. sucks up 1.9 billion gallons of gasoline a year.
In that incident, an asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling about 80 million trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island -- but leaving no crater.
The QDR proposed that the minimum airlift capacity to support the two-war construct was approximately 50 million ton-miles per day with an additional surge sealift capacity of 10 million square feet.
Qatar ranks 148th in population with 1.7 million people and 164th in area with 4, 400 square miles.
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It includes Phoenix, covers more than nine thousand square miles, and has a population of nearly four million.
Envisioned as the city's answer to Canary Wharf, Mr. Luzhkov promised the planned 46 million-square-foot complex, located a mere 2.5 miles from the Kremlin, would become the "stunningly modern" heart of a new Russia when finished in 2007.
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