home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text id=93CT1428>
- <title>
- Turks & Caicos Islands--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Turks and Caicos Islands
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: in the western North Atlantic Ocean, 190 km north of
- the Dominican Republic and southeast of The Bahamas
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 430 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 430 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly less than 2.5 times the size of
- Washington, DC</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 389 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical; marine; moderated by trade winds; sunny and
- relatively dry
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: low, flat limestone; extensive marshes and mangrove
- swamps
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: spiny lobster, conch
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 2%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
- <l> other: 98%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: 30 islands (eight inhabited); subject to frequent
- hurricanes
- </p></body></article></text>
-
-
-