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<text id=93CT1409>
<title>
Tunisia--Geography
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tunisia
Geography</hdr><body>
<p>Location: Northern Africa, 144 km from Italy across the Strait
of Sicily, between Algeria and Libya
</p>
<list>
<l>Area:</l>
<l> total area: 163,610 km2</l>
<l> land area: 155,360 km2</l>
<l> comparative area: slightly larger than Georgia</l>
</list>
<p>Land boundaries: total 1,424 km, Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km
</p>
<p>Coastline: 1,148 km
</p>
<list>
<l>Maritime claims:</l>
<l> territorial sea: 12 nm</l>
</list>
<p>International disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Libya;
land boundary disputes with Algeria under discussion
</p>
<p>Climate: temperate in north with mild, rainy winters and hot,
dry summers; desert in south
</p>
<p>Terrain: mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid
south merges into the Sahara
</p>
<p>Natural resources: petroleum, phosphates, iron ore, lead,
zinc, salt
</p>
<list>
<l>Land use:</l>
<l> arable land: 20%</l>
<l> permanent crops: 10%</l>
<l> meadows and pastures: 19%</l>
<l> forest and woodland: 4%</l>
<l> other: 47%</l>
</list>
<p>Irrigated land: 2,750 km2 (1989)
</p>
<p>Environment: deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion;
desertification
</p>
<p>Note: strategic location in central Mediterranean
</p></body></article></text>