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- <text id=94CT0423><title>Equatorial Guinea—Geography</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Equatorial Guinea<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Cameroon and Gabon
- <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 28,050 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 28,050 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly larger than Maryland
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- <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> total 539 km, Cameroon 189 km, Gabon 350 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 296 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>exclusive economic zone:</hi> 200 nm
- <item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 12 nm
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- <item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> maritime boundary dispute with Gabon because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay
- <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical; always hot, humid
- <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are volcanic
- <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> timber, petroleum, small unexploited deposits of gold, manganese, uranium
- <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 8%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 4%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 4%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 51%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 33%
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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> desertification
- <item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> subject to violent windstorms
- <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Nuclear Test Ban; signed, but not ratified—Law of the Sea
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- <item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> insular and continental regions rather widely separated
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