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Akrotiri: map and facts
Akrotiri is in Western Asia. It covers 123 km².
Facts
- Area: 123 km² (CIA World Factbook (archived)). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 99 km².
Land
Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): grassland 43.8%, farmland 23.6%, bare ground 9%, water 9%, towns and cities 8.3%, savanna 6.3%.
Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): plains 55.6%, hills 44.4%.
Neighbours
Akrotiri shares land borders with Cyprus on this map.
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Sources
India’s boundaries are drawn according to India’s official position, simplified for small-scale maps (data: Natural Earth, India view). Each figure shows its year and source; some are rounded. Data release 2026.2.
- Natural Earth (naturalearthdata.com), public domain. Boundaries follow India's official position (Natural Earth's India point of view). Terms
- GMTED2010 courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey (Danielson and Gesch 2011, USGS Open-File Report 2011-1073). Terms
- Friedl, M., Sulla-Menashe, D. (2022). MODIS/Terra+Aqua Land Cover Type Yearly L3 Global 500m SIN Grid V061. NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC. doi:10.5067/MODIS/MCD12Q1.061. Terms
- Landforms worked out by Make Me Smarter from GMTED2010.
- Some figures corrected by Make Me Smarter from published references: Australian Bureau of Statistics; Atlas of Canada; CIA World Factbook (archived); FAO; FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025; FSM Statistics; GeoNames; Gilbertson & Gilbertson's GPS surveys of national high points; INEGI (Mexico); Peaklist.org; PeakVisor; Government of the Pitcairn Islands; Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program; Statistics Finland; UN Demographic Yearbook; UN World Population Prospects 2024; Wikidata; Wikipedia.
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