AREA AND POPULATION BY COUNTRIES

Albania is a Balkan kingdom with an estimated area of 17,374 square miles and population of 840,000.

Andorra is a semi-independent republic in the Pyrenees with an area of 191 square miles and a population of between 5000 and 6000.

Austria is a republic with an area of 32,369 square miles and a population (1923) of 6,526,000. The Austro-Hungarian Empire before the World War had an area of 261,259 square miles.

Belgium is a kingdom with an area of 11,752 square miles and a population of about 7,875,000.

Bulgaria is a kingdom in the Balkans with an area of 39,814 square miles and a population of 5,483,000.

The republic of Czecho-Slovakia, in central Europe, has an area of 51,207 square miles and a population officially estimated at about 14,356,000.

The free city of Danzig, under the protection of the League of Nations, has an area of 754 square miles and a population (1924) of 386,000, mostly German.

The kingdom of Denmark has an area of 15,568 square miles and a population of 3,343,000 (1925). The Faroe Islands, which belong to Denmark, have an area of 540 square miles and a population of 21,000.

The republic of Estonia has an area of about 18,000 square miles and a population of about 1,115,000.

The republic of Finland has an area of 149,641 square miles and a population estimated at 3,526,000.

The republic of France has an area of 212,659 square miles and a population (1926) of 40,743,851. (The island of Corsica included.) The grand total of land under the direct control of France, including colonies in America, Asia, Africa and Oceania is 5,870,460 square miles, with a population of over a hundred million.

The republic of Germany has a land area of 181,714 square miles. This includes the Saar district, not at the moment under German control. The population in 1925 was 63,118,000.

The republic of Greece, in the Balkans, has an area of 49,022 square miles with a population which was 5,447,000 in 1920 and estimated in 1928 (A Political Handbook of the World) at about seven millions.

The kingdom or regency of Hungary has an area which is not entirely definite, for some of the boundaries are yet to be determined, but it may be stated as 35,875 square miles. The population is close to nine millions (8,160,000 in 1924). Before the World War Hungary had an area of 109,216 square miles; or, with Croatia and Slavonia, of 125,641 square miles.

The kingdom of Italy has an area of 119,714 square miles, with a population of 40,548,000. The total area of the Italian Empire is 990,658 square miles, with a population of some 43 millions. (Some of the colonial boundaries are rather vague.)

The kingdom of Jugoslavia or Yugoslavia, also known more formally as the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, has an area of 96,134 square miles, with a population of 12,017,000 in 1921. The country contains about half a million each of Germans, Albanians, and Hungarians.

The republic of Latvia, which is south of Estonia, has an area of about 25,000 square miles and a population of 1,870,000.

The principality of Liechtenstein, formerly dependent on Austria and now in the Swiss customs union, has an area of 65 square miles and a population of about 12,000.

The republic of Lithuania, which is one of the Baltic States, still has aspirations for the recovery of the city and district of Vilna, seized from it by Poland. Without this, it has an area of about 21,800 square miles and a population of about 2,228,000.

The grand duchy of Luxemburg, which is in a customs union with Belgium, has an area of 999 square miles and a population of 269,000.

The principality of Monaco, on the Mediterranean, is all but surrounded by French territory. It has an area of 8 square miles, and its population in 1923 was 22,000.

The kingdom of the Netherlands, popularly referred to as Holland, has an area of 12,593 square miles. The official estimate of population at the beginning of 1926 was 7,416,418. The Dutch Empire, including a large district in the East Indies, has an area of 801,000 square miles and a population of about 57 millions.

The kingdom of Norway, which occupies the western part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, has an area of 124,964 square miles and a population which was 2,649,000 in 1920, and is about 2,900,000 in 1929.

The republic of Poland has an area of some 149,140 square miles, but part of the boundaries, especially with Lithuania, are at present indefinite. The population is about 30,000,000.

The republic of Portugal has an area, including the Azores and Madeira, of 35,490 square miles and a population of 6,033,000 (1920). The colonies bring up the area to nearly a million square miles.

The temporal sovereignty of the see of Rome has recently been extended somewhat, but the population of persons other than church officials, not available at this writing, is quite small. The popes were worldly rulers over some 3,000,000 people living in a district of 16,000 square miles until most of their dominions were absorbed by the kingdom of Italy in the nineteenth century.

The kingdom of Roumania, or Rumania, which is sometimes classed with the Balkan countries, has an area of 122,282, of which more than half was gained by the peace treaties ending the World War. The population is about 17,500,000.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, generally known as Russia, is a Eurasian country with a total area of 8,187,253 square miles and a total population of 146,304,000. The Russian Empire had an area of 8,764,586 square miles and a population (1915) of 182,183,000, of which 131,797,000 was European.

The republic of San Marino, surrounded by Italian territory, has an area of 38 square miles and a population of about 13,000.

The kingdom of Spain, which occupies the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, has an area of 190,050 square miles. Including the Balearic and Canary Islands, the area is 194,783 square miles. The estimated population at the beginning of 1926, these islands included, was 22,128,000.

The Scandinavian kingdom of Sweden has a land area of 173,105 square miles and a population of over six millions (6,053,562 in 1923).

The republican confederation of Switzerland has an area of 15,940 square miles and is inhabited by about four million people (3,886,000 in 1920).

The Eurasian republic of Turkey has an area of about 280,000 square miles, but some of the boundaries are in dispute. The European area consists of 8,819 square miles, but it includes the city of Constantinople, with a population of about 700,000. The total population of the republic is about 13,650,000. The Turkish Empire before the World War had an area of over 710,000 square miles.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has an area of 84,284 square miles, of which England has 50,874, Wales has 7,466, Scotland has 30,405, Northern Ireland or Ulster has 5,237, the Isle of Man has 227, and the Channel Islands have 75. The 1921 census showed a population of 36,678,000 in England, 2,207,000 in Wales, 4,882,000 in Scotland, 60,238 in the Isle of Man, and 89,614 in the Channel Islands. Northern Ireland had a population of 1,256,000 according to a census taken in 1926. The Irish Free State then had 2,973,000 inhabitants. Its area is 26,592 square miles. Gibraltar, with a area of 2 square miles, has a population of about 18,000. Malta, containing 122 square miles, is occupied by about 225,000 people; and Cyprus has some 325,000 inhabitants in an area of 3,584 square miles.

The British Empire as a whole, including mandates but not semi-dependencies and spheres of influence, has an area of about 13,379,000 square miles and a population of some 450,000,000 people, in all parts of the world. It makes up, in area and population, about a quarter of the world: the land surface of the globe, not all of it habitable, is 57,510,000 square miles.