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- <title>
- Philippines: Geography
- </title>
- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Philippines
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Southeast Asia, between Indonesia and China
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 300,000 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 298,170 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly larger than Arizona</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 36,289 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims: measured from claimed archipelagic
- baselines</l>
- <l> continental shelf: to depth of exploitation</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: irregular polygon extending up to 100 nm
- from coastline as defined by 1898 treaty; since late 1970s has
- also claimed polygonal-shaped area in South China Sea up to 285
- nm in breadth</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: involved in a complex dispute over the
- Spratly Islands with China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam, and
- possibly Brunei; claims Malaysian state of Sabah
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical marine; northeast monsoon (November to
- April); southwest monsoon (May to October)
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow to extensive coastal
- lowlands
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: timber, petroleum, nickel, cobalt, silver,
- gold, salt, copper
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 26%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 11%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 4%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 40%</l>
- <l> other: 19%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: 16,200 km2 (1989 est.)
- </p>
- <p>Environment: astride typhoon belt, usually affected by 15 and
- struck by five to six cyclonic storms per year; subject to
- landslides, active volcanoes, destructive earthquakes, tsunami;
- deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution
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