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<text id=94CT0944><title>Micronesia, Federated States of—Geography</title> <article><source>CIA Factbook</source> <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Micronesia, Federated States of<nl>Geography</hdr><body> <list> <item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Oceania, Micronesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way between Hawaii and Indonesia <item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> 702 sq km <item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> 702 sq km <item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> slightly less than four times the size of Washington, DC <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> includes Pohnpei (Ponape), Truk (Chuuk), Yap, and Kosrae </list> <item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> 0 km <item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 6,112 km <item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>exclusive economic zone:</hi> 200 nm <item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 12 nm </list> <item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> none <item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasional severe damage <item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Truk <item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> forests, marine products, deep-seabed minerals <item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi> <list style=hang> <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% </list> <item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> NA sq km <item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi> <list style=hang> <item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> NA <item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> subject to typhoons (June to December) <item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Climate Change, Law of the Sea; signed, but not ratified—Biodiversity </list> <item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> four major island groups totaling 607 islands </list></body></article></text>