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Norfolk Island: map and facts

Norfolk Island is in Oceania. It has 2,188 people (2021). It covers 36 km². That is about 61 people per km². Its highest point is Mount Bates, at 319 m.

Norfolk Island and the sea around it. The triangle marks its highest point, Mount Bates; the circle marks its capital, Kingston. Boundaries follow India’s official position.

Facts

Population: 2,188 (2021, Australian Bureau of Statistics)
Area: 36 km² (UN Demographic Yearbook). This figure covers a different area from the one this map shows: as drawn, about 41 km².
Capital: Kingston
Highest point: Mount Bates, 319 m (Wikidata)

Mountains and landscapes

Its highest peaks:

Mount Bates: 319 m (its highest point)

Land

Land cover seen from satellites (NASA MODIS, 2024): savanna 32.7%, wetland 27.3%, evergreen broadleaf forest 21.8%, water 14.6%, grassland 3.6%.

Landforms, worked out from the height of the land (USGS GMTED2010): hills 100%.

Neighbours

Norfolk Island 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
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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