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- <title>
- Comoros: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Comoros
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: in the extreme northern Mozambique Channel, about
- two-thirds of the way between northern Madagascar and northern
- Mozambique
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 2,170 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 2,170 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly more than 12 times the size of
- Washington, DC</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 340 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: claims French-administered Mayotte
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical marine; rainy season (November to May)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: volcanic islands, interiors vary from steep mountains
- to low hills
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: negligible
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 35%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 8%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 7%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 16%</l>
- <l> other: 34%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: soil degradation and erosion; deforestation;
- cyclones possible during rainy season
- </p>
- <p>Note: important location at northern end of Mozambique
- Channel
- </p></body></article></text>
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