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- Geography
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- Total area: 163,610 km2
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- Land area: 155,360 km2
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- Comparative area: slightly larger than Georgia
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- Land boundaries: 1,424 km total; Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km
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- Coastline: 1,148 km
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- Maritime claims: -- Territorial sea: 12 nm
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- Disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Libya; land boundary
- disputes with Algeria under discussion
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- Climate: temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot,
- dry summers; desert in south
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- Terrain: mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid
- south merges into the Sahara
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- Natural resources: crude oil, phosphates, iron ore, lead, zinc,
- salt
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- Land use: arable land 20%; permanent crops 10%; meadows and
- pastures 19%; forest and woodland 4%; other 47%; includes
- irrigated 1%
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- Environment: deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion;
- desertification
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- Note: strategic location in central Mediterranean; only 144 km
- from Italy across the Strait of Sicily; borders Libya on east
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