> Next week, France will hand over 3,000 sq m (3,200 sq ft) of its territory to Spain without a single shot being fired.
Those numbers don't add up.
> The island is tiny - just over 200m long and 40m wide.
Assuming the island is roughly an ellipse, it's area should be ~6,280 m^2 or ~67,400 ft^2. Wikipedia reports the island's area as 0.00682 km^2 (6,820 m^2) and 0.00263 mi^2 (73,300 ft^2) [1].
So the reported area is half of the actual area, and the U.S. conversion to feet is off by an order of magnitude. BBC should have someone double check the numbers.