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<text id=93CT1363>
<title>
Solomon Islands--Geography
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><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
</p></body></article></text>