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- @node Header (Bassas da India)
- @section Header (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Affiliation:
- (possession of France)
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- @end display
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- @node Geography (Bassas da India)
- @section Geography (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Location:
- Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about halfway between
- Madagascar and Mozambique
- Map references:
- Africa
- Area:
- total area:
- NA km2
- land area:
- NA km2
- comparative area:
- NA
- Land boundaries:
- 0 km
- Coastline:
- 35.2 km
- Maritime claims:
- contiguous zone:
- 24 nm
- continental shelf:
- 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation
- exclusive economic zone:
- 200 nm
- territorial sea:
- 12 nm
- International disputes:
- claimed by Madagascar
- Climate:
- tropical
- Terrain:
- a volcanic rock 2.4 meters high
- Natural resources:
- none
- Land use:
- arable land:
- 0%
- permanent crops:
- 0%
- meadows and pastures:
- 0%
- forest and woodland:
- 0%
- other:
- 100% (all rock)
- Irrigated land:
- 0 km2
- Environment:
- surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones
- Note:
- navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide
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- @end display
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- @node People (Bassas da India)
- @section People (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Population:
- uninhabited
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- @end display
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- @node Government (Bassas da India)
- @section Government (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Names:
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Bassas da India
- Digraph:
- BS
- Type:
- French possession administered by Commissioner of the Republic Jacques
- DEWATRE (since July 1991), resident in Reunion
- Capital:
- none; administered by France from Reunion
- Independence:
- none (possession of France)
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- @end display
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- @node Economy (Bassas da India)
- @section Economy (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Overview:
- no economic activity
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- @end display
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- @node Communications (Bassas da India)
- @section Communications (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Ports:
- none; offshore anchorage only
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- @end display
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- @node Defense Forces (Bassas da India)
- @section Defense Forces (Bassas da India)
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- @display
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- Note:
- defense is the responsibility of France
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- @end display
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