Resources and Land Use
- Natural resources
- Quartz, water, timber, hydropower, scenic beauty, small deposits of lignite, copper, cobalt, iron ore
- Land use
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- Arable land: 21.68%
- Permanent crops: 0.64%
- Other: 77.68% (2001)
- Irrigated land
- 11,350 km² (1998 established)
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