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- Geography
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- Total area: 10 km2; land area: 10 km2
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- Comparative area: about 17 times the size of The Mall in
- Washington, DC
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- Land boundaries: none
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- Coastline: 101 km
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- Maritime claims:
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- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm; Territorial sea: 12 nm
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- Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds (April to November)
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- Terrain: coral atolls enclosing large lagoons
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- Natural resources: negligible
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- Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
- pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%
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- Environment: lies in Pacific typhoon belt
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- Note: located 3,750 km southwest of Honolulu in the South
- Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Hawaii and New Zealand
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