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- <text id=93CT1391>
- <title>
- Tonga--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tonga
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Oceania, 2,250 km north-northwest of New Zealand,
- about two-thirds of the way between Hawaii and New Zealand
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 748 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 718 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly more than four times the size of
- Washington, DC</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 419 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> continental shelf: not specified</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical; modified by trade winds; warm season
- (December to May), cool season (May to December)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: most islands have limestone base formed from uplifted
- coral formation; others have limestone overlying volcanic base
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: fish, fertile soil
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 25%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 55%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 6%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 12%</l>
- <l> other: 2%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: archipelago of 170 islands (36 inhabited);
- subject to cyclones (October to April); deforestation
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