Korea | 138,508| | | Tasmania | [5]70,000| 59,987| 61,648| 68,130 British | | | | Borneo | [5]100,000| | 49,762| Spitzbergen | 44,092| | | Brazil | 16,535| | | Portugal | [5]10,000| 16,938| 27,053| Venezuela | [5]10,000| [5]12,000| 13,355| Switzerland | 8,267| | | Philippine | | | | Islands | [5]2,000| 2,998| | Unspecified | [5]1,016,947| | | -------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------- Total |1,309,565,000|1,377,000,000|1,478,000,000|1,346,000,000 | [7] | [7] | [7] | -------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+------------- [5] Estimated. [6] Transvaal included Natal and Cape of Good Hope. [7] Approximate. TABLE 5.--RESERVES Total coal reserves in millions of metric tons have been estimated, by continents, as follows: Continent Millions of tons North America 5,073,000 Asia 1,280,000 Europe 784,000 Australia and Oceania 170,000 Africa 58,000 South America 32,000 The countries on pre-war basis having the greatest reserves are as follows: Country Millions of tons United States (half lignite) 3,527,000 Canada (three-fourths lignite) 1,234,000 China 996,000 to 1,500,000 British Isles 190,000 Siberia (largely lignite) 173,000 Germany (including Upper Silesia and the Saar) 423,000 New South Wales 118,000 India 79,000 Russia including Dombrova field (Poland) 60,000 Austria (chiefly in Bohemia, Silesia and Galicia) 54,000 France 17,600 [Illustration: FIG. 4.--Coal reserves of chief producing countries, according to “Coal Resources of the World,” in millions of metric tons. Squares are to scale: lines showing relative production are not on same scale as squares.] The reserves of the principal productive coal fields are graphically shown in Figure 4. The distribution of the coal deposits of the world and the estimated reserves in these deposits are shown in Plate II. GENERAL WORLD SITUATION