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How many miles of coastline does the US have? How about compared to Costa Rica?
I’m looking for the total millage of the US – ocean costline and i like to see a comparsion vs. Costa Rica.
does anyone have these numbers or figures?
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5 Responses to “How many miles of coastline does the US have? How about compared to Costa Rica?”
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July 18th, 2010 at 10:20 am
The CIA World Factbook lists the land boundaries of the United States as 12,248
kilometers (7612 miles), and the coastline as 19,924 km (12,383 miles). These
numbers include all US territory.
Costa Rica
Coastline: 1,290 km
Definition: This entry gives the total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
Source: CIA World Factbook – Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of April 17, 2007
July 18th, 2010 at 10:57 am
INFOPLEASE shows the oceanic coastline of the US as
12,383 miles*
While the CIA World Factbook gives 19,924 km **
(12,380.2 miles )
close enough eh?
The Cosa Rican coastline by CIA methods is
1,290 km (801.5 miles)
July 18th, 2010 at 10:59 am
The US has (according to the source) 12,383 miles and Costa Rica (it is about the size of West Virginia with 20,000 square miles) 755 miles of coastline stretched along the two oceans (Atlantic and Pacific).
July 18th, 2010 at 11:33 am
the state of Alaska alone has more miles of coastline than all of the contigious states of the U.S.
July 18th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
johnjohn beat me to it but we do have more coastline up here than the lower 48. Watch the info you get because alot of publications will not include Alaska and Hawaii and we got some coast man.