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Falkland Islands: map and facts

The Falkland Islands is in South America. It has 3,477 people (2023). It covers 12,173 km². That is about 0.29 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Usborne, at 705 m.

The Falkland Islands and the sea around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Mount Usborne; the circle marks its capital, Stanley. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 3,477 (2023, UN World Population Prospects)
Area: 12,173 km² (UN Demographic Yearbook). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 11,600 km².
Capital: Stanley
Highest point: Mount Usborne, 705 m (Wikidata)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Mount Usborne: 705 m (its highest point)

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): savanna 47.2%, grassland 44.4%, water 4.5%, wetland 3.2%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 48.8%, plains 41%, mountains 10.2%.

Neighbours

The Falkland Islands has no land borders 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
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024. CC BY 3.0 IGO. Terms
Wikidata (CC0): names, capitals, peak heights and river lengths, checked by Make Me Smarter. 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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