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Geography
Total area: 5.2 km2; land area: 5.2 km2; includes Eastern
Island and Sand Island.
Comparative area: about nine times the size of The Mall
in Washington, DC.
Land boundaries: none.
Coastline: 15 km.
Maritime claims:
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
Continental shelf: 200 m;
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm.
Climate: tropical, but moderated by prevailing easterly winds.
Terrain: low, nearly level.
Natural resources: fish and wildlife.
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows
and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other.
Environment: coral atoll.
Note: located 2,350 km west-northwest of Honolulu at the
western end of Hawaiian Islands group, about one-third of
the way between Honolulu and Tokyo; closed to the public.