Geography
- Total Area: ranked 139 out of 250 countries.
- Land use in 2001: if ranked, 118 out of 190 countries.
- Percentage of water area: ranked 8 out of 139 countries.
- Coastline length: ranked 66 out of 239 countries.
- Population of urban areas in 2009: Taipei ranked 44, Taichung ranked 122, Kaohsiung ranked 131 out of 188 urban areas.
- Renewable water resources in 2000: ranked 84 out of 174 countries.
- Global city in 2010: Taipei ranked Alpha-.
| Index | Organization | Year | Rank | Out of | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Performance Index | Yale University | 2012 | 29 | 132 |
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Famous quotes containing the word geography:
“Where the heart is, there the muses, there the gods sojourn, and not in any geography of fame. Massachusetts, Connecticut River, and Boston Bay, you think paltry places, and the ear loves names of foreign and classic topography. But here we are; and, if we tarry a little, we may come to learn that here is best. See to it, only, that thyself is here;—and art and nature, hope and fate, friends, angels, and the Supreme Being, shall not absent from the chamber where thou sittest.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Ktaadn, near which we were to pass the next day, is said to mean “Highest Land.” So much geography is there in their names.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)