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- Geography
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- Total area: 1 km2
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- Land area: 1 km2
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- Comparative area: about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in
- Washington, DC
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- Land boundaries: none
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- Coastline: 3.7 km
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- Maritime claims: -- Contiguous zone: 12 nm -- Continental shelf:
- 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation -- Exclusive economic
- zone: 200 nm -- Territorial sea: 12 nm
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- Disputes: claimed by Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles
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- Climate: tropical
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- Terrain: sandy
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- Natural resources: fish
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- Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
- pastures 0%; forest and woodland 0%; other - scattered bushes
- 100%
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- Environment: wildlife sanctuary
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- Note: located 350 km east of Madagascar and 600 km north of
- Reunion in the Indian Ocean; climatologically important
- location for forecasting cyclones
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