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- <text id=93CT1379>
- <title>
- Togo--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Togo
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean
- beween Benin and Ghana
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 56,790 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 54,390 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly smaller than West Virginia</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 1,647 km, Benin 644 km, Burkina 126 km,
- Ghana 877 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 56 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 30 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: gently rolling savanna in north; central hills;
- southern plateau; low coastal plain with extensive lagoons and
- marshes
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: phosphates, limestone, marble
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 25%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 1%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 4%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 28%</l>
- <l> other: 42%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 70 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: hot, dry harmattan wind can reduce visibility in
- north during winter; recent droughts affecting agriculture;
- deforestation
- </p></body></article></text>
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