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<text id=94CT0137><title>Bassas da India—Geography</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Bassas da India<nl>Geography</hdr><body>
<list>
<item><hi format=bold>Location:</hi> Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about halfway between Madagascar and Mozambique
<item><hi format=bold>Area:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>total area:</hi> NA km2
<item>• <hi format=ital>land area:</hi> NA km2
<item>• <hi format=ital>comparative area:</hi> NA
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Land boundaries:</hi> 0 km
<item><hi format=bold>Coastline:</hi> 35.2 km
<item><hi format=bold>Maritime claims:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>contiguous zone:</hi> 24 nm
<item>• <hi format=ital>continental shelf:</hi> 200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
<item>• <hi format=ital>exclusive economic zone:</hi> 200 nm
<item>• <hi format=ital>territorial sea:</hi> 12 nm
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>International disputes:</hi> claimed by Madagascar
<item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> tropical
<item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> a volcanic rock 2.4 meters high
<item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> none
<item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 0%
<item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 100% (all rock)
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> 0 sq km
<item><hi format=bold>Environment:</hi>
<list style=hang>
<item>• <hi format=ital>current issues:</hi> NA
<item>• <hi format=ital>natural hazards:</hi> surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> NA
</list>
<item><hi format=bold>Note:</hi> navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide
</list></body></article></text>