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- Geography
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- Total area: 5,130 km2
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- Land area: 5,130 km2
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- Comparative area: slightly smaller than Delaware
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- Land boundaries: none
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- Coastline: 362 km
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- Maritime claims: -- Continental shelf: outer edge of continental
- margin or 200 nm -- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm --
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
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- Disputes: none
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- Climate: tropical; rainy season (June to December)
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- Terrain: mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
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- Natural resources: crude oil, natural gas, asphalt
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- Land use: arable land 14%; permanent crops 17%; meadows and
- pastures 2%; forest and woodland 44%; other 23%; includes
- irrigated 4%
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- Environment: outside usual path of hurricanes and other
- tropical storms
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- Note: located 11 km from Venezuela
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