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- Geography
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- Total area: 240 km2; land area: 240 km2.
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- Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of
- Washington, DC.
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- Land boundaries: none.
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- Coastline: 120 km.
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- Maritime claims:
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- Continental shelf: 200 meters or edge of continental margin;
- Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
- Territorial sea: 12 nm.
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- Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds.
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- Terrain: low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands
- in south.
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- Natural resources: negligible.
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- Land use: 4% arable land; 22% permanent crops; 0% meadows
- and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 74% other.
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- Environment: subject to typhoons from November to March.
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- Note: located 4,500 km south of Hawaii in the South Pacific Ocean.
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