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Geography
Total area: 11.9 km2; land area: 11.9 km2.
Comparative area: about 20 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC.
Land boundaries: none.
Coastline: 14.5 km.
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m;
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm.
Climate: equatorial, hot, and very rainy.
Terrain: low, with maximum elevations of about 2 meters.
Natural resources: none.
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows
and pastures; 100% forest and woodland; 0% other.
Environment: about 50 islets covered with dense vegetation,
coconut trees, and balsa-like trees up to 30 meters tall.
Note: located 1,600 km south-southwest of Honolulu in the North
Pacific Ocean, almost halfway between Hawaii and American Samoa.