Covers 412 kmยฒ, making it the 202nd largest country here - roughly the size of Malta.
Heard I. and McDonald Is.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands ยท Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Seven seas (open ocean)
ยท Seven seas (open ocean)
- ISO codes
- HM ยท HMD
- Density
- -
- Languages
- English
- Currencies
- -
- Dial code
- -
- Internet domain
- .hm
- Time zones
- -
- Coastline
- Has a coast
- Map centre
- 53.1030ยฐ S, 73.5050ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Heard and McDonald Islander
- UN region
- Africa ยท Seven seas (open ocean)
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Low income
- Total GDP
- -
- Sovereignty
- Not independent ยท not a UN member
- Borders
- None
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By the numbers
How Heard I. and McDonald Is. stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Ten facts about Heard I. and McDonald Is.
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Has no land neighbours - it is an island nation, surrounded entirely by water.
Has its own coastline and direct access to the open sea.
The official language is English.
Uses the .hm internet domain.
Sits in Seven seas (open ocean), in the Seven seas (open ocean) sub-region, and lies in the southern temperate belt.
People from Heard I. and McDonald Is. are called Heard and McDonald Islander.
Heard I. and McDonald Is. is a territory rather than a fully independent state.
Known locally as Heard Island and McDonald Islands.
Identified by the ISO codes HM and HMD, and by the flag ๐ญ๐ฒ.