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- <text id=93CT1397>
- <title>
- Trinidad & Tobago--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Trinidad and Tobago
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: in the extreme southeastern Caribbean Sea, 11 km off
- the coast of Venezuela
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 5,130 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 5,130 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly smaller than Delaware</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 362 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
- <l> continental shelf: 200 nm or the outer edge of continental
- margin</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical; rainy season (June to December)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, asphalt
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 14%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 17%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 2%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 44%</l>
- <l> other: 23%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 220 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: outside usual path of hurricanes and other
- tropical storms
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