Furthermore, they argue, international practice at the time was that all territorial cessions carried an extended area equivalent to the length of two cannon shots.

At two study sites near Iquitos, as many as 300 species were identified per hectare, an area equivalent to about two and a half acres.

This residential area is the home of about 100,000 people and currently covers an area equivalent to the city centre of Ibagué.

Conflagration: A large, typically urban, fire involving numerous structures; loosely defined as enveloping an area equivalent to one or more square blocks.

Of Colombia's arable land - an area equivalent in size to North Dakota - only about 20 percent is even used for agriculture.

In 2001, the population was just over 11,523 inhabitants, in an area equivalent to 9.38 km2.

And what if the dots are strewn over an area equivalent to about one-third of the United States, but amount to only 70 square miles total?

Each 1,000-pound cluster bomb delivers 200 to 300 "bomblets," which in turn can spread hundreds of fragments over an area equivalent to several football fields.

Each health committee manages an area equivalent to one of the 83 administrative cantons of Costa Rica.

The murals cover an area equivalent to more than one and a half football fields, and the caves also house some 2,000 painted sculptures.