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- Geography
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- Total area: 48,730 km2
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- Land area: 48,380 km2
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- Comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of New
- Hampshire
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- Land boundaries: 275 km; Haiti 275 km
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- Coastline: 1,288 km
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- Maritime claims: -- Contiguous zone: 24 nm -- Continental shelf:
- outer edge of continental margin or 200 nm -- Exclusive economic
- zone: 200 nm -- Territorial sea: 6 nm
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- Disputes: none
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- Climate: tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature
- variation
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- Terrain: rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys
- interspersed
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- Natural resources: nickel, bauxite, gold, silver
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- Land use: arable land 23%; permanent crops 7%; meadows and
- pastures 43%; forest and woodland 13%; other 14%; includes
- irrigated 4%
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- Environment: subject to occasional hurricanes (July to
- October); deforestation
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- Note: shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti (western one-third
- is Haiti, eastern two-thirds is the Dominican Republic)
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