United States Minor Outlying Islands

13 Total Protected Areas

1 With management effectiveness evaluations

Terrestrial Protected Areas

Marine Protected Areas

Other effective area-based conservation measures

0 Total Other effective area-based conservation measures

Polygons/Points ratio

Polygons 92%

Points 8%

Terrestrial Protected Areas Coverage

97.57% Coverage

355km² Land Area Protected

363km² Total Land Area

PAME

0.4% With management effectiveness evaluations

1km² Areas Assessed

Marine Protected Areas Coverage

0.77% Coverage

15,071km² Marine and Coastal Area Protected

1,964,385km² Marine Area Protected

PAME

0.12% With management effectiveness evaluations

2,305km² Areas Assessed

Disclaimer: These statistics might differ from those reported officially by countries due to difference in methodologies and datasets used to assess protected area coverage and differences in the base maps used to measure terrestrial and marine area of a country or territory.

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IUCN Management Categories

1. Ib 4, 30.77% View list
2. IV 8, 61.54% View list
3. Not Reported 1, 7.69% View list

Governance types

Federal or national ministry or agency 11 View list
Not Reported 1 View list
Collaborative governance 1 View list

Sources (2)

Protected Areas Database of the United States (PADUS 2.0) Updated: 2020 U.S. Geological Survey | Science Analytics and Synthesis | Gap Analysis Project (GAP) | Protected Areas Database of the United States 2.0
Ramsar Wetlands of International Importance Updated: 2020 Ramsar Secretariat, on behalf of Ramsar Contracting Parties

Designations

National designations

National Wildlife Refuge 8
Wilderness Study Area 4

Regional designations

International designations

Ramsar Site, Wetland of International Importance 1

Growth in protected area coverage

The graph excludes status years with no information reported (STAT_YR = 0).