In S. Africa, the Portuguese possessions on the west coast are given as 809,400 sq. W. and the population 9,000,000, and on the cast coast i 991,150 sq. kil. and only 1,000,000 inhabitants. The independent States in South Africa are Muata Janvo's kingdom, Kasongo's, Mutate Ma bunda, Matabele Land, Swasi Land, Orampo Land, etc., the total area being stated as 6,255,082 and the population 16,296,350. .
The figures for British South Africa are :-Cape Colony, 199,950 square miles, 780,757 inhabitants (1880) ; Basutoland, 9720 and 128,17G (1875); West Griqualand, 17,491 and 45,277 (1875) Transkei, 15,573 and 409,944 ; Natal, 18,750 and 364,338 (1880) ;-total, 261,481 square miles, 1,728,492 inhabitants.
Transvaal is estimated at 285,363 sq. kil. and the population (1881) 816,960, of whom 40,000 are white. The calculated area of the Orange Free State is 107,439 sq. kil. ; the population of 1880 was 133,518, of whom 61,022 were white.
The African islands area in the Atlantic is 15,801 sq. kil. and the population 572,600; in the Indian Ocean, 610,141 sq. kil. and 4,330,000 in habitants.
America.-Its areas and populations of 1881 are-Ontario, 107,780 sq. miles and 1,923,228 inhabitants ; Quebec, 193,355 and 1,359,027 ; New Brunswick, 27,322 and 321,233 ; Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 21,731 and 440,572; Manitoba, 150,000 and 65,41 ; Prince Edward Island, 2173 and 108,891 ; British Columbia, 355,999 and 49,459; Territories, 2,346,983 and 56,446 ;-total, 3,205,343 sq. miles and 4,324,810 inhabitants. Newfoundland has an area of 42,731 sq. miles, and population in 1881, 181,753. The French posses sions in North America (St. Pierre, Ile-aux-Chiens, and Miguelon) have an area of 235 sq. kil. and a
population (1879) of 5224. The total area is stated at 3,602,990 sq. miles, and the total popu lation 50,442,066.
For Mexico the area is 1,945,471 sq. kil.; the population is stated to be 9,577,279.
For the Central American States the figures are -Guatemala, 121,140 sq. kil., 1,252,497 inhabit ants (1881) ; Honduras, 120,480 and 350,000 ; British Honduras, 19,585 and 24,710 ; Salvador, 18,720 and 554,785 (1878) ; Nicaragua, 133,800 and 300,000 (1877) ; Costa Rica, 51,760 and 185,000 (1874) ; Panama State, 81,823 and 224,600 (1870) ;-total, 547,308 sq. kil. and 2,891,600 inhabitants.
The total area of the West India Islands is 244,478 sq. kil., and the population (mostly that of 1879-81) 4,617,450. The British possessions have an area of 34,500 sq. kil. and a population of 1,206,522. Guiana is divided as follows : French, 121,413 sq. kil. and 36,000 inhabitants (1879) ; Dutch, 119,321 and 63,525 (1879) ; British, 221,243 and 248,110 (1879). Against other South American States are the following figures :-Venezuela, 1,137,615 sq. kil., 2,675,245 inhabitants (1881) ; Colombia, 830,670 and 3,000,000 ; Ecuador, 643,295 and 946,033, besides 200,000 wild Indians ; Peru, 1,119,941 and (1876) 3,050,000; Bolivia (without considering probable results of recent war), 1,297,255 and 2,325,000; Chili (including results of recent division of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego be tween Chili and the Argentine Republic), 537,187 and 2,420,500 ; Argentine Republic, 2,835,969 and 2,540,000 (1880) ; Uruguay (1880), 186,920 and 438,245; Paraguay, 238,290 and 293,844; Brazil, 8,337,218 and 11,108,291.-Times.