Skip to main content

Table 1 Coastline connected to land area in certain South and Southeast Asian countries and Micronesia. (Source: Adapted from Ramasamy et al. 2015)

From: Impact of Salinity on Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Experiences from the Global Coastal Region

Country/Statistic

Land area (In Km2)

Coastline (in Km)

Coast/area ratio (m/Km2)

Bangladesh

130,168

580

4.5

India

2,973,193

7000

2

Sri Lanka

64,630

1340

20.7

Malaysia

328,657

4675

14.2

Indonesia

1,811,569

54,716

30.2

Philippines

298,170

36,289

121.7

Micronesia (Western Pacific)

702

6112

8710