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- <text id=94CT0038><title>Anguilla—Geography</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Anguilla<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Caribbean, in the eastern Caribbean Sea, about 270 km east of Puerto Rico
- <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 91 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 91 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> about half the size of Washington, DC
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- <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> 0 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 61 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>exclusive fishing zone:</hi> 200 nm
- <item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 3 nm
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- <item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> none
- <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical; moderated by northeast trade winds
- <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> flat and low-lying island of coral and limestone
- <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> negligible; salt, fish, lobster
- <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> NA%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> NA%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> NA%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> NA%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> NA% (mostly rock with sparse scrub oak, few trees, some commercial salt ponds)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> NA sq km
- <item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> NA
- <item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> frequent hurricanes and other tropical storms (July to October)
- <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> NA
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