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Geography
Total area: 240 km2; land area: 240 km2.
Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of
Washington, DC.
Land boundaries: none.
Coastline: 120 km.
Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: 200 meters or edge of continental margin;
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm.
Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds.
Terrain: low coral atolls in north; volcanic, hilly islands
in south.
Natural resources: negligible.
Land use: 4% arable land; 22% permanent crops; 0% meadows
and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 74% other.
Environment: subject to typhoons from November to March.
Note: located 4,500 km south of Hawaii in the South Pacific Ocean.