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- Geography
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- Total area: 1,759,540 km2
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- Land area: 1,759,540 km2
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- Comparative area: slightly larger than Alaska
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- Land boundaries: 4,383 km; Algeria 982 km, Chad 1,055 km, Egypt
- 1,150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan 383 km, Tunisia 459 km
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- Coastline: 1,770 km
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- Maritime claims: -- Territorial sea: 12 nm -- Gulf of Sidra
- closing line: 32 degrees 30 minutes N
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- Disputes: claims and occupies the 100,000 km2 Aozou Strip in
- northern Chad; maritime boundary dispute with Tunisia; Libya
- claims about 19,400 km2 in northern Niger; Libya claims about
- 19,400 km2 in southeastern Algeria
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- Climate: Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior
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- Terrain: mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus,
- depressions
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- Natural resources: crude oil, natural gas, gypsum
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- Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
- pastures 8%; forest and woodland 0%; other 91%; includes
- irrigated NEGL%
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- Environment: hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli is a southern wind
- lasting one to four days in spring and fall; desertification;
- sparse natural surface-water resources
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- Note: the Great Manmade River Project, the largest water
- development scheme in the world, is being built to bring water
- from large aquifers under the Sahara to coastal cities
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