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- <text id=93CT1409>
- <title>
- Tunisia--Geography
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tunisia
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Northern Africa, 144 km from Italy across the Strait
- of Sicily, between Algeria and Libya
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- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 163,610 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 155,360 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly larger than Georgia</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: total 1,424 km, Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 1,148 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Libya;
- land boundary disputes with Algeria under discussion
- </p>
- <p>Climate: temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot,
- dry summers; desert in south
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid
- south merges into the Sahara
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, iron ore, lead,
- zinc, salt
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 20%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 10%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 19%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 4%</l>
- <l> other: 47%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 2,750 km2 (1989)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion;
- desertification
- </p>
- <p>Note: strategic location in central Mediterranean
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