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- @node Header (Navassa Island)
- @section Header (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Affiliation:
- (territory of the US)
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- @end display
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- @node Geography (Navassa Island)
- @section Geography (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Location:
- in the Caribbean Sea, 160 km south of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo
- (Cuba), between Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica
- Map references:
- Central America and the Caribbean
- Area:
- total area:
- 5.2 km2
- land area:
- 5.2 km2
- comparative area:
- about nine times the size of the Mall in Washington, DC
- Land boundaries:
- 0 km
- Coastline:
- 8 km
- Maritime claims:
- contiguous zone:
- 24 nm
- continental shelf:
- 200 m or depth of exploitation
- exclusive economic zone:
- 200 nm
- territorial sea:
- 12 nm
- International disputes:
- claimed by Haiti
- Climate:
- marine, tropical
- Terrain:
- raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by vertical
- white cliffs (9 to 15 meters high)
- Natural resources:
- guano
- Land use:
- arable land:
- 0%
- permanent crops:
- 0%
- meadows and pastures:
- 10%
- forest and woodland:
- 0%
- other:
- 90%
- Irrigated land:
- 0 km2
- Environment:
- mostly exposed rock, but enough grassland to support goat herds; dense
- stands of fig-like trees, scattered cactus
- Note:
- strategic location 160 km south of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba
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- @end display
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- @node People (Navassa Island)
- @section People (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Population:
- uninhabited; note - transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on the
- island
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- @end display
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- @node Government (Navassa Island)
- @section Government (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Names:
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Navassa Island
- Digraph:
- BQ
- Type:
- unincorporated territory of the US administered by the US Coast Guard
- Capital:
- none; administered from Washington, DC
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- @end display
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- @node Economy (Navassa Island)
- @section Economy (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Overview:
- no economic activity
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- @end display
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- @node Communications (Navassa Island)
- @section Communications (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Ports:
- none; offshore anchorage only
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- @end display
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- @node Defense Forces (Navassa Island)
- @section Defense Forces (Navassa Island)
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- @display
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- Note:
- defense is the responsibility of the US
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- @end display
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