If you lived in Samoa instead of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, you would:

Geography

see 4.0 times more coastline

Heard Island and McDonald Islands has a total of 102 km of coastline. In Samoa, that number is 403 km.


The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Samoa: At a glance

Samoa is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 2,821 sq km. New Zealand occupied the German protectorate of Western Samoa at the outbreak of World War I in 1914. It continued to administer the islands as a mandate and then as a trust territory until 1962, when the islands became the first Polynesian nation to reestablish independence in the 20th century. The country dropped the "Western" from its name in 1997.
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