While Central America encompasses a small area of land, describe the topography, environment, climate, and dominant features of this land mass, as well as any human impact?

The total land space of the Japanese islands is about 142,000 square miles. As you can see from map 2 and map 3, it is a very small country when compared with the vast Asian mainland, or with the United States, where it is smaller than the single, although large, state of California.