| Geography | Dominican Republic |
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Location:
 | Caribbean, eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of Haiti |
Geographic coordinates:
 | 19 00 N, 70 40 W |
Map references:
 | Central America and the Caribbean |
Area:
 | total: 48,670 sq km land: 48,320 sq km water: 350 sq km |
Area - comparative:
 | slightly more than twice the size of New Hampshire |
Land boundaries:
 | total: 360 km border countries: Haiti 360 km |
Coastline:
 | 1,288 km |
Maritime claims:
 | measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 6 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin |
Climate:
 | tropical maritime; little seasonal temperature variation; seasonal variation in rainfall |
Terrain:
 | rugged highlands and mountains with fertile valleys interspersed |
Elevation extremes:
 | lowest point: Lago Enriquillo -46 m highest point: Pico Duarte 3,175 m |
Natural resources:
 | nickel, bauxite, gold, silver |
Land use:
 | arable land: 22.49% permanent crops: 10.26% other: 67.25% (2005) |
Irrigated land:
 | 2,750 sq km (2003) |
Total renewable water resources:
 | 21 cu km (2000) |
Total renewable water resources - per capita:
 | 2,177 cubic meters per capita |
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
 | total: 3.39 cu km/yr (32%/2%/66%) per capita: 381 cu m/yr (2000) |
Natural hazards:
 | lies in the middle of the hurricane belt and subject to severe storms from June to October; occasional flooding; periodic droughts |
Environment - current issues:
 | water shortages; soil eroding into the sea damages coral reefs; deforestation |
Environment - international agreements:
 | party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea |
Geography - note:
 | shares island of Hispaniola with Haiti |
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