Statistics
- Maritime claims
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- Contiguous zone: 24 nmi (44.4 km; 27.6 mi)
- Continental shelf: to depth of exploitation
- Exclusive economic zone: 200 nmi (370.4 km; 230.2 mi)
- Territorial sea: 12 nmi (22.2 km; 13.8 mi)
- Climate
- Tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds
- Terrain
- Mostly rough and mountainous
- Natural resources
- Bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, marble, hydropower
- Land use
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- Arable land: 20.32%
- Permanent crops: 12.7%
- Other: 66.98% (1998 est.)
- Natural hazards
- Lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October; occasional flooding and earthquakes; periodic droughts
- Environment—current issues
- Extensive deforestation (much of the remaining forested land is being cleared for agriculture and used as fuel); soil erosion; inadequate supplies of potable water
- Environment—international agreements
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- Party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation
- Signed, but not ratified: Hazardous Wastes, Nuclear Test Ban
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