Quality of life comparison

 British Virgin Islands
compared to
 Heard Island and McDonald Islands

If you lived in Heard Island and McDonald Islands instead of British Virgin Islands, you would:

Geography

see 27.4% more coastline

British Virgin Islands has a total of 80 km of coastline. In Heard Island and McDonald Islands, that number is 102 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: The World Factbook.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands: At a glance

Heard Island and McDonald Islands (sometimes abbreviated HIMI) is a sovereign country in Antarctica, with a total land area of approximately 412 sq km. The United Kingdom transferred these uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.
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