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- <text id=94CT0744><title>Juan de Nova Island—Geography</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Juan de Nova Island<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Southern Africa, in the central Mozambique Channel about one-third of the way between Madagascar and Mozambique
- <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 4.4 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 4.4 sq km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> about 7.5 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
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- <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> 0 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 24.1 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>contiguous zone:</hi> 12 nm
- <item>• <hi format=ital>continental shelf:</hi> 200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
- <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> claimed by Madagascar
- <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical
- <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> NA
- <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> guano deposits and other fertilizers
- <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 0%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 90%
- <item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 10%
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- <item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> 0 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> subject to periodic cyclones
- <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> NA
- </list>
- <item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> wildlife sanctuary
- </list></body></article></text>
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