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- <text id=94CT0561><title>Grenada—Geography</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Grenada<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Caribbean, in the eastern Caribbean Sea, about 150 im north of Trinidad and Tobago
- <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 340 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 340 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC
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- <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> 0 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 121 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> none
- <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical; tempered by northeast trade winds
- <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> volcanic in origin with central mountains
- <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> timber, tropical fruit, deepwater harbors
- <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 15%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 26%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 3%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 9%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 47%
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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> lies on edge of hurricane belt; hurricane season lasts from June to November
- <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection; signed, but not ratified—Climate Change
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- <item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> islands of the Grenadines group are divided politically with Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
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