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- Geography
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- Total area: 7 km2
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- Comparative area: about 12 times the size of The Mall in
- Washington, DC
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- Land boundaries: none
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- Coastline: 11.1 km
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- Maritime claims:
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- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm; Territorial sea: 12 nm
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- Disputes: claimed by Mexico
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- Climate: tropical
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- Terrain: coral atoll
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- Natural resources: none
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- Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
- pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other (coral) 100%
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- Environment: reef about 8 km in circumference
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- Note: located 1,120 km southwest of Mexico in the North Pacific
- Ocean; also called Ile de la Passion
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