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- <title>
- Bassas Da India (FR): Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Bassas da India
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel
- about halfway between Madagascar and Mozambique
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: NA km2</l>
- <l> land area: NA km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: NA</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 35.2 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
- <l> continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of
- exploitation</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: claimed by Madagascar
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: a volcanic rock 2.4 meters high
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: none
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 0%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 0%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 0%</l>
- <l> other: 100% (all rock)</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 0 km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic
- cyclones
- </p>
- <p>Note: navigational hazard since it is usually under water
- during high tide
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