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- Geography
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- Total area: 5.2 km2; land area: 5.2 km2.
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- Comparative area: about nine times the size of The Mall
- in Washington, DC.
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- Land boundaries: none.
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- Coastline: 8 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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- Disputes: claimed by Haiti.
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- Climate: marine, tropical.
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- Terrain: raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating;
- ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 meters high).
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- Natural resources: guano.
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- Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 10% meadows
- and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 90% other.
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- Environment: mostly exposed rock, but enough grassland to
- support goat herds; dense stands of fig-like trees, scattered
- cactus.
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- Note: strategic location between Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica
- in the Caribbean Sea; 160 km south of the US Naval Base
- at Guantanamo, Cuba.
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