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- @node Header (Glorioso Islands)
- @section Header (Glorioso Islands)
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- @display
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- Affiliation:
- (possession of France)
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- @end display
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- @node Geography (Glorioso Islands)
- @section Geography (Glorioso Islands)
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- @display
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- Location:
- Southern Africa, in the Indian Ocean just north of Madagascar
- Map references:
- Africa
- Area:
- total area:
- 5 km2
- land area:
- 5 km2
- comparative area:
- about 8.5 times the size of the Mall in Washington, DC
- note:
- includes Ile Glorieuse, Ile du Lys, Verte Rocks, Wreck Rock, and South Rock
- Land boundaries:
- 0 km
- Coastline:
- 35.2 km
- Maritime claims:
- contiguous zone:
- 12 nm
- exclusive economic zone:
- 200 nm
- territorial sea:
- 12 nm
- International disputes:
- claimed by Madagascar
- Climate:
- tropical
- Terrain: NA
- Natural resources:
- guano, coconuts
- Land use:
- arable land:
- 0%
- permanent crops:
- 0%
- meadows and pastures:
- 0%
- forest and woodland:
- 0%
- other:
- 100% (all lush vegetation and coconut palms)
- Irrigated land:
- 0 km2
- Environment:
- subject to periodic cyclones
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- @end display
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- @node People (Glorioso Islands)
- @section People (Glorioso Islands)
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- @display
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- Population:
- unihabited
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- @end display
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- @node Government (Glorioso Islands)
- @section Government (Glorioso Islands)
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- @display
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- Names:
- conventional long form:
- none
- conventional short form:
- Glorioso Islands
- local long form:
- none
- local short form:
- Iles Glorieuses
- Digraph:
- GO
- Type:
- French possession administered by Commissioner of the Republic, resident in
- Reunion
- Capital:
- none; administered by France from Reunion
- Independence:
- none (possession of France)
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- @end display
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- @node Economy (Glorioso Islands)
- @section Economy (Glorioso Islands)
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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 (Glorioso Islands)
- @section Communications (Glorioso Islands)
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- @display
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- Ports:
- none; offshore anchorage only
- Airports:
- total:
- 1
- usable:
- 1
- with permanent-surface runways:
- 0
- with runsways over 3,6359 m:
- 0
- with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
- 0
- with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
- 1
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- @end display
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- @node Defense Forces (Glorioso Islands)
- @section Defense Forces (Glorioso Islands)
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- @display
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- Note:
- defense is the responsibility of France
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- @end display
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