The 1992 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ Land area:

       58 km2

       Comparative area:

       about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC

       Land boundaries:

       none

       Coastline:

       29.6 km

       Maritime claims:

       Territorial sea:

       4 nm

       Disputes:

       none

       Climate:

       antarctic

       Terrain:

       volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inacessible

       Natural resources:

       none

       Land use:

       arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 0%; forest and

       woodland 0%; other 100% (ice)

       Environment:

       covered by glacial ice

       Note:

       located in the South Atlantic Ocean 2,575 km south-southwest of the Cape of

       Good Hope, South Africa

      :Bouvet Island People

      Population: uninhabited

      :Bouvet Island Government

      Long-form name:

       none

       Type:

       territory of Norway

       Capital:

       none; administered from Oslo, Norway

      :Bouvet Island Economy

      Overview: no economic activity

      :Bouvet Island Communications

      Ports:

       none; offshore anchorage only

       Telecommunications:

       automatic meteorological station

      :Bouvet Island Defense Forces

      Note: defense is the responsibility of Norway

      :Brazil Geography

      Total area:

       8,511,965 km2

       Land area:

       8,456,510 km2; includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas,

       Ilha da Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo

       Comparative area:

       slightly smaller than the US

       Land boundaries:

       14,691 km; Argentina 1,224 km, Bolivia 3,400 km, Colombia 1,643 km, French

       Guiana 673 km, Guyana 1,119 km, Paraguay 1,290 km, Peru 1,560 km, Suriname

       597 km, Uruguay 985 km, Venezuela 2,200 km

       Coastline:

       7,491 km

       Maritime claims:

       Continental shelf:

       200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation

       Exclusive fishing zone:

       200 nm

       Territorial sea:

       200 nm

       Disputes:

       short section of the boundary with Paraguay (just west of Guaira Falls on

       the Rio Parana) is in dispute; two short sections of boundary with Uruguay

       are in dispute (Arroyo de la Invernada area of the Rio Quarai and the

       islands at the confluence of the Rio Quarai and the Uruguay)

       Climate:

       mostly tropical, but temperate in south

       Terrain:

       mostly flat to rolling lowlands in north; some plains, hills, mountains, and

       narrow coastal belt

       Natural resources:

       iron ore, manganese, bauxite, nickel, uranium, phosphates, tin, hydropower,

       gold, platinum, crude oil, timber

       Land use:

       arable land 7%; permanent crops 1%; meadows and pastures 19%; forest and

       woodland 67%; other 6%; includes irrigated NEGL%

       Environment:

       recurrent droughts in northeast; floods and frost in south; deforestation in

       Amazon basin; air and water pollution in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo

       Note:

       largest country in South America; shares common boundaries with every South

       American country except Chile and Ecuador

      :Brazil People

      Population:

       158,202,019 (July 1992), growth rate 1.8% (1992)

       Birth rate:

       25 births/1,000 population (1992)

       Death rate:

       7 deaths/1,000 population (1992)

       Net migration rate:

       0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)

       Infant mortality rate:

       67 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)

       Life expectancy at birth:

       62 years male, 69 years female (1992)

       Total fertility rate:

       3.0 children born/woman (1992)

       Nationality:

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