| Country | Natural resources |
| Jan Mayen | none |
| Japan | negligible mineral resources, fish
note: with virtually no energy natural resources, Japan is the world's largest importer of coal and liquefied natural gas, as well as the second largest importer of oil |
| Jersey | arable land |
| Jordan | phosphates, potash, shale oil |
| Kazakhstan | major deposits of petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, manganese, chrome ore, nickel, cobalt, copper, molybdenum, lead, zinc, bauxite, gold, uranium |
| Kenya | limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, hydropower |
| Kiribati | phosphate (production discontinued in 1979) |
| Korea, North | coal, lead, tungsten, zinc, graphite, magnesite, iron ore, copper, gold, pyrites, salt, fluorspar, hydropower |
| Korea, South | coal, tungsten, graphite, molybdenum, lead, hydropower potential |
| Kosovo | nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, lignite, kaolin, chrome, bauxite |
| Kuwait | petroleum, fish, shrimp, natural gas |
| Kyrgyzstan | abundant hydropower; significant deposits of gold and rare earth metals; locally exploitable coal, oil, and natural gas; other deposits of nepheline, mercury, bismuth, lead, and zinc |
| Laos | timber, hydropower, gypsum, tin, gold, gemstones |
| Latvia | peat, limestone, dolomite, amber, hydropower, timber, arable land |
| Lebanon | limestone, iron ore, salt, water-surplus state in a water-deficit region, arable land |
| Lesotho | water, agricultural and grazing land, diamonds, sand, clay, building stone |
| Liberia | iron ore, timber, diamonds, gold, hydropower |
| Libya | petroleum, natural gas, gypsum |
| Liechtenstein | hydroelectric potential, arable land |
| Lithuania | peat, arable land, amber |
| Luxembourg | iron ore (no longer exploited), arable land |
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