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- Total area: 199 km2; land area: 199 km2.
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- Comparative area: slightly larger than Washington, DC.
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- Land boundaries: none.
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- Coastline: 116 km.
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- Maritime claims:
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- Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
- Continental shelf: 200 m;
- Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
- Territorial sea: 12 nm.
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- Climate: tropical marine, moderated by southeast trade winds;
- annual rainfall averages 124 inches; rainy season from November
- to April, dry season from May to October; little seasonal
- temperature variation.
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- Terrain: five volcanic islands with rugged peaks and limited
- coastal plains, two coral atolls.
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- Natural resources: pumice and pumicite.
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- Land use: 10% arable land; 5% permanent crops; 0% meadows
- and pastures; 75% forest and woodland; 10% other.
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- Environment: typhoons common from December to March.
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- Note: Pago Pago has one of the best natural deepwater harbors
- in the South Pacific Ocean, sheltered by shape from rough
- seas and protected by peripheral mountains from high winds;
- strategic location about 3,700 km south-southwest of Honolulu
- in the South Pacific Ocean about halfway between Hawaii
- and New Zealand.