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- Geography
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- Total area: 135 km2; land area: 135 km2.
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- Comparative area: about 0.8 times the size of Washington, DC.
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- Land boundaries: none.
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- Coastline: 138.9 km.
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- Maritime claims:
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- Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
- Continental shelf: 200 meters or to depth of exploitation;
- Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;
- Territorial sea: 3 nm.
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- Climate: tropical; heat and humidity moderated by trade winds.
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- Terrain: steep cliffs along coast rise abruptly to central plateau.
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- Natural resources: phosphate.
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- Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows
- and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other.
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- Environment: almost completely surrounded by a reef.
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- Note: located along major sea lanes of Indian Ocean.
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