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Geography
Total area: 458 km2; land area: 458 km2.
Comparative area: slightly more than 2.5 times the size of
Washington, DC.
Land boundaries: none.
Coastline: 1,519 km.
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m;
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 3 nm.
Climate: wet season May to November; hot and humid.
Terrain: islands vary geologically from the high mountainous
main island of Babelthuap to low, coral islands usually
fringed by large barrier reefs.
Natural resources: forests, minerals (especially gold),
marine products; deep-seabed minerals.
Land use: NA% arable land; NA% permanent crops; NA% meadows
and pastures; NA% forest and woodland; NA% other.
Environment: subject to typhoons from June to December;
archipelago of six island groups totaling over 200 islands
in the Caroline chain.
Note: important location 850 km southeast of the Philippines;
includes World War II battleground of Peleliu and world-famous
rock islands.