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- <title>
- Solomon Islands: Geography
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Solomon Islands
- Geography</hdr><body>
- <p>Location: Oceania, just east of Papua New Guinea in the South
- Pacific Ocean
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Area:</l>
- <l> total area: 28,450 km2</l>
- <l> land area: 27,540 km2</l>
- <l> comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland</l>
- </list>
- <p>Land boundaries: 0 km
- </p>
- <p>Coastline: 5,313 km
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Maritime claims: measured from claimed archipelagic
- baselines</l>
- <l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
- <l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
- </list>
- <p>International disputes: none
- </p>
- <p>Climate: tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and
- weather
- </p>
- <p>Terrain: mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
- </p>
- <p>Natural resources: fish, forests, gold, bauxite, phosphates
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Land use:</l>
- <l> arable land: 1%</l>
- <l> permanent crops: 1%</l>
- <l> meadows and pastures: 1%</l>
- <l> forest and woodland: 93%</l>
- <l> other: 4%</l>
- </list>
- <p>Irrigated land: NA km2
- </p>
- <p>Environment: subject to typhoons, which are rarely
- destructive; geologically active region with frequent earth
- tremors
- </p>
- <p>Note: located just east of Papua New Guinea in the South
- Pacific Ocean
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