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<text>
<title>
Brazil: Geography
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Brazil
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 8,511,965 km2</l>
<l> land area: 8,456,510 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly smaller than the US</l>
</list>
<p>note: includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das
Rocas, Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao
Pedro e Sao Paulo
</p>
<p>Land boundaries: total 14,691 km, Argentina 1,224 km, Bolivia
3,400 km, Colombia 1,643 km, French Guiana 673 km, Guyana 1,119
km, Paraguay 1,290 km, Peru 1,560 km, Suriname 597 km, Uruguay
985 km, Venezuela 2,200 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 7,491 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> contiguous zone: 24 nm</l>
<l> continental shelf: 200 m depth or to depth of
exploitation</l>
<l> exclusive economic zone: 200 nm</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: short section of the boundary with
Paraguay (just west of Guaira Falls on the Rio Parana) is in
dispute; two short sections of boundary with Uruguay are in
dispute - Arrio Invernada (Arroyo de la Invernada) area of the
Rio Quarai (Rio Cuareim) and the islands at the confluence of
the Rio Quarai (Rio Cuareim) and the Uruguay
</p>
<p>Climate: mostly tropical, but temperate in south
</p>
<p>Terrain: mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some
plains, hills, mountains, and narrow coastal belt
</p>
<p>Natural resources: iron ore, manganese, bauxite, nickel,
uranium, phosphates, tin, hydropower, gold, platinum, petroleum,
timber
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 7%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 1%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 19%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 67%</l>
<l> other: 6%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 27,000 km2 (1989 est.)
</p>
<p>Environment: recurrent droughts in northeast; floods and frost
in south; deforestation in Amazon basin; air and water pollution
in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and several other large cities
</p>
<p>Note: largest country in South America; shares common
boundaries with every South American country except Chile and
Ecuador
</p></body></article></text>