<item><hi format=bold>Climate:</hi> modified continental with mild winters, cool summers
<item><hi format=bold>Terrain:</hi> mostly gently rolling uplands with broad, shallow valleys; uplands to slightly mountainous in the north; steep slope down to Moselle floodplain in the southeast
<item><hi format=bold>Natural resources:</hi> iron ore (no longer exploited)
<item><hi format=bold>Land use:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>arable land:</hi> 24%
<item>• <hi format=ital>permanent crops:</hi> 1%
<item>• <hi format=ital>meadows and pastures:</hi> 20%
<item>• <hi format=ital>forest and woodland:</hi> 21%
<item>• <hi format=ital>other:</hi> 34%
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<item><hi format=bold>Irrigated land:</hi> NA sq km
<item>• <hi format=ital>international agreements:</hi> party to—Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber; signed, but not ratified—Biodiversity, Climate Change, Environmental Modification, Law of the Sea