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- Geography
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- Total area: 26 km2
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- Land area: 26 km2
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- Comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC
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- Land boundaries: none
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- Coastline: 24 km
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- Maritime claims: -- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm --
- Territorial sea: 12 nm
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- Disputes: none
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- Climate: tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to
- November); westerly gales and heavy rain (November to March)
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- Terrain: very low-lying and narrow coral atolls
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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 100%
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- Environment: severe tropical storms are rare
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- Note: located 3,000 km east of Papua New Guinea in the South
- Pacific Ocean
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