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- Equatorial Guinea: Geography
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Equatorial Guinea
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean
- between Cameroon and Gabon
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- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 28,050 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 28,050 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland</l>
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- <p>Land boundaries: total 539 km, Cameroon 189 km, Gabon 350 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 296 km
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- <l>Maritime claims:</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Gabon
- because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay
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- <p>Climate: tropical; always hot, humid
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are
- volcanic
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: timber, petroleum, small unexploited
- deposits of gold, manganese, uranium
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 8%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 4%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 4%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 51%</l>
- <l> other: 33%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: subject to violent windstorms
- </p>
- <p>Note: insular and continental regions rather widely separated
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