| Geography | Guinea-Bissau |
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Location:
 | Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal |
Geographic coordinates:
 | 12 00 N, 15 00 W |
Map references:
 | Africa |
Area:
 | total: 36,120 sq km land: 28,000 sq km water: 8,120 sq km |
Area - comparative:
 | slightly less than three times the size of Connecticut |
Land boundaries:
 | total: 724 km border countries: Guinea 386 km, Senegal 338 km |
Coastline:
 | 350 km |
Maritime claims:
 | territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm |
Climate:
 | tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds |
Terrain:
 | mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east |
Elevation extremes:
 | lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location in the northeast corner of the country 300 m |
Natural resources:
 | fish, timber, phosphates, bauxite, clay, granite, limestone, unexploited deposits of petroleum |
Land use:
 | arable land: 8.31% permanent crops: 6.92% other: 84.77% (2005) |
Irrigated land:
 | 250 sq km (2003) |
Total renewable water resources:
 | 31 cu km (2003) |
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
 | Total: 0.18 cu km/yr (13%/5%/82%) Per capita: 113 cu m/yr (2000) |
Natural hazards:
 | hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season; brush fires |
Environment - current issues:
 | deforestation; soil erosion; overgrazing; overfishing |
Environment - international agreements:
 | party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
Geography - note:
 | this small country is swampy along its western coast and low-lying inland |
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