172 POPULATION 28.—Areas and Populations of the Countries or Areas of the World 1956—continued Continent and Country Area Population Continent and Country Area sq. miles sq. miles Africa—concluded America, North—concluded TERRITORIES AND TERRITORIES AND DEPENDENCIES—concluded DEPENDENCIES—concluded United Kingdom—concluded Netherlands— •Kenya 224,960 6,150 Netherlands Antilles17 •Mauritius, excl.dependencies 720 569 •Nigeria, Federation of 339,169 31,834 United Kingdom— Eastern Region 7,640 •Bahama Islands 4,400 Lagos (capital) » SIS •Bermuda 20 Northern Region %64,m 17,390 •British Honduras 8,867 Western Region West Indies, Federation of •Rhodesia and Nyasaland 46,376 the— Federation of 7,260 •Barbados 166 Northern Rhodesia 487,640 2,180 •Jamaica, excl. dependen­ Nyasaland m, iso 2,600 cies 4,411 Southern Rhodesia 49,177 2,480 •Cayman Islands 93 *St. Helena and dependencies 150,333 5" •Turks and Caicos Is... 202 •Seychelles and dependencies 162 40 •Leeward Islands 422 •Sierra Leone (Colony and 156 •Trinidad and Tobago.... 1,980 Protectorate) 27,925 2,100 •Windward Islands 826 •Swaziland 6,704 237 •Uganda 93,981 5,593 United States— •Zanzibar and Pemba.... 1,026 Alaska 586,401 Canal Zone 553 Puerto Rico 3,435 2 TRUST TERRITORIES Virgin Islands (U.S.) " 133 •Cameroons (Br. Adm.) 34,081 1,534 Cameroons (Fr. Adm.) — 166.796 3,188 America, South Ruandi-Urundi (Belg. Adm.). 20,916 4,433 Somaliland (Ital. Adm.).. 178.201 1,300 Argentina.. 1,072,748 •Tanganyika (Br. Adm.)... 362,688 8,456 Bolivia 424,163 Togoland (Fr. Adm.) 22,008 1,088 Brazil 3,287,204 Chile 286,397 Colombia.. 439,520 FORMER MANDATED TERRITORY Ecuador... 104,506 (Union of South Africa) Paraguay.. 157,047 Peru 482,259 •South West Africa'* 318,099 Uruguay... 72,172 Venezuela., 352,143 TERRITORIES AND America, North DEPENDENCIES 3,851,809 17,048' France- •Canada.. 24 Costa Rica 19,653 988 French Guiana . 35,135 Cuba 44,218 6,410= Dominican Republic 18,816 2,608 Netherlands— El Salvador 7,722 2,268 Surinam 55,212 Guatemala 42,042 3,348 Haiti 10,714 3,344 United Kingdom— 83,000 Honduras 43,277 1,711 •British Guiana Mexico 760,337 30,538 •Falkland Islands, excl. Nicaragua 57,143 1,288 dependencies 4,618 Panama 28,753 934 United States of America 3,022,389 168,174" Asia TERRITORIES AND Afghanistan 250,966 DEPENDENCIES Arab Federation- Iraq 171,600 Denmark— Jordan 37,301 Greenland. 840,001 •Bahrain 231 Bhutan 19,305 261,757 France—• Burma Guadeloupe and dependen­ Cambodia 67,568 cies 687 245 •Ceylon 25,332 425 253 China, Mainland. 3,768,736 Martinique 2 St. Pierre and Miquelon.... 93 53 China, Taiwan '.. 13,885 For footnotes, see end of table, p. 174. .