Quality of life comparison
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If you lived in Tokelau instead of Bouvet Island, you would:
Geography
see 3.4 times more coastline
Bouvet Island has a total of 30 km of coastline. In Tokelau, that number is 101 km.
The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.
Tokelau: At a glance
Tokelau is a sovereign country in Australia-Oceania, with a total land area of approximately 12 sq km. Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in 1889. They were transferred to New Zealand administration in 1925. Referenda held in 2006 and 2007 to change the status of the islands from that of a New Zealand territory to one of free association with New Zealand did not meet the needed threshold for approval.
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