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<title>
Kiribati: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Kiribati
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Oceania, straddling the equator in the Pacific Ocean,
about halfway between Hawaii and Australia
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 717 km2</l>
<l> land area: 717 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly more than four times the size of
Washington, DC</l>
</list>
<p>note: includes three island groups - Gilbert Islands, Line Islands,
Phoenix Islands
</p>
<p>Land boundaries: 0 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 1,143 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: none
</p>
<p>Climate: tropical; marine, hot and humid, moderated by trade winds
</p>
<p>Terrain: mostly low-lying coral atolls surrounded by extensive
reefs
</p>
<p>Natural resources: phosphate (production discontinued in 1979)
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 0%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 51%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 0%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 3%</l>
<l> other: 46%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: NA km2
</p>
<p>Environment: typhoons can occur any time, but usually November to
March; 20 of the 33 islands are inhabited
</p>
<p>Note: Banaba (Ocean Island) in Kiribati is one of the three great
phosphate rock islands in the Pacific Ocean - the others are Makatea
in French Polynesia and Nauru
</p></body></article></text>