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The Falklands summits Mount Usborne (705 m) on East Falkland, and Mount Adam (700 m) on West Falkland are lower than the highest peaks Mount Paget (2,934 m) of South Georgia (UK), Ben Nevis (1,343 m) of Scotland (UK), Musala (2,925 m) of Bulgaria, or even Scafell Pike (978 m) of England (UK).

Land area: 12,173 km². Approximately equal to that of Northern Ireland (UK), or Connecticut (US), Jamaica, Qatar, West Midlands region (England/UK), Île-de-France region (France), Murcía, Asturias or Navarra provinces (Spain), Campania province (Italy), Tirol province (Austria), Izmir province (Turkey), Qom province (Iran), Lampang province (Thailand), or Niigata prefecture (Japan).

The territory of the Falkland Islands is also:

0.006 times the size of Greenland (Denmark);

0.15 times the size of French Guiana;

0.6 times the size of Slovenia or Israel;

0.7 times the size of Swaziland or Valparaíso region (Chile);

0.8 times the size of Schleswig-Holstein province (Germany) or Kaliningrad oblast (Russia);

1.1 times the size of Jamaica;

1.2 times the size of Lebanon;

1.3 times the size of Cyprus;

1.4 times the size of Puerto Rico (US);

1.7 times the size of the state of Sikkim (India);

2.2 times the size of Prince Edward Island province (Canada);

2.4 times the size of Trinidad & Tobago;

3 times the size of South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (UK); and 4.7 times the size of Luxembourg.

Coastline: 1,288 km. This equals 0.38 times the coastline of France, 1.95 times that of Uruguay, 2.86 times that of the Netherlands, and 3.64 times that of Bulgaria.