| Geography | Marshall Islands |
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Location:
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Oceania, two archipelagic island chains of 29 atolls, each made up of many small islets, and five single islands in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way between Hawaii and Australia |
Geographic coordinates:
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9 00 N, 168 00 E |
Map references:
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Oceania |
Area:
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total: 181 sq km
land: 181 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: the archipelago includes 11,673 sq km of lagoon waters and includes the atolls of Bikini, Enewetak, Kwajalein, Majuro, Rongelap, and Utirik |
Area - comparative:
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about the size of Washington, DC |
Land boundaries:
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0 km |
Coastline:
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370.4 km |
Maritime claims:
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territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm |
Climate:
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tropical; hot and humid; wet season May to November; islands border typhoon belt |
Terrain:
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low coral limestone and sand islands |
Elevation extremes:
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lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: unnamed location on Likiep 10 m |
Natural resources:
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coconut products, marine products, deep seabed minerals |
Land use:
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arable land: 11.11%
permanent crops: 44.44%
other: 44.45% (2005) |
Irrigated land:
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0 sq km |
Total renewable water resources:
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void |
Total renewable water resources - per capita:
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void |
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):
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void |
Natural hazards:
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infrequent typhoons |
Environment - current issues:
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inadequate supplies of potable water; pollution of Majuro lagoon from household waste and discharges from fishing vessels |
Environment - international agreements:
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party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
Geography - note:
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the islands of Bikini and Enewetak are former US nuclear test sites; Kwajalein atoll, famous as a World War II battleground, surrounds the world's largest lagoon and is used as a US missile test range; the island city of Ebeye is the second largest settlement in the Marshall Islands, after the capital of Majuro, and one of the most densely populated locations in the Pacific |
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