Land Use
Natural resources include coal, gold, hydropower, iron ore, limestone, natural gas, sand, iron sand and timber.
Land use:
- arable land: 5.54%
- permanent crops: 6.92%
- other: 87.54%
Irrigated land: 2,850 km² (2003)
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Famous quotes containing the word land:
“The windy springs and the blazing summers, one after another, had enriched and mellowed that flat tableland; all the human effort that had gone into it was coming back in long, sweeping lines of fertility. The changes seemed beautiful and harmonious to me; it was like watching the growth of a great man or of a great idea. I recognized every tree and sandbank and rugged draw. I found that I remembered the conformation of the land as one remembers the modelling of human faces.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed”
—Edward Thomas (1878–1917)