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- <text id=93CT1429>
- <title>
- Tuvalu--Geography
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tuvalu
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Oceania, 3,000 km east of Papua New Guinea in the
- South Pacific Ocean
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 26 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 26 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington,
- DC</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 24 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to
- November); westerly gales and heavy rain (November to March)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: fish
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 0%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
- <l> other: 100%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: severe tropical storms are rare
- </p></body></article></text>
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