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ITEM ID     : CI WOFACT WO0024
DATE        : Oct 28, 1994
 
AGENCY      : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PROGRAM     : WORLD FACTBOOK
TITLE       : World Factbook: Bassas da India
 
Source key      : CI 
Program key     : CI WOFACT 
Update sched.   : Annually         
Data type       : TEXT 
End year        : 1994
Date of record  : 19941020
Keywords 3      :  
Keywords 3      : | Bassas da India 
 
 
                              Bassas da India
 
 
                                  Header
 
Affiliation:
     (possession of France)
 
                                 Geography
 
Location:
     Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about halfway
     between Madagascar and Mozambique
Map references:
     Africa
Area:
total area:
     NA km2
land area:
     NA km2
comparative area:
     NA
Land boundaries:
     0 km
Coastline:
     35.2 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
     24 nm
continental shelf:
     200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone:
     200 nm
territorial sea:
     12 nm
International disputes:
     claimed by Madagascar
Climate:
     tropical
Terrain:
     a volcanic rock 2.4 meters high
Natural resources:
     none
Land use:
arable land:
     0%
permanent crops:
     0%
meadows and pastures:
     0%
forest and woodland:
     0%
other:
     100% (all rock)
Irrigated land:
     0 sq km
 
 
Environment:
current issues:
     NA
natural hazards:
     surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones
international agreements:
     NA
Note:
     navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide
 
                                  People
 
Population:
     uninhabited
 
                                Government
 
Names:
conventional long form:
     none
conventional short form:
Digraph:
     BS
Type:
     French possession administered by a Commissioner of the Republic,
     resident in Reunion
Capital:
     none; administered by France from Reunion
Independence:
     none (possession of France)
 
                                  Economy
 
Overview:
     no economic activity
 
                              Communications
 
Ports:
     none; offshore anchorage only
 
                              Defense Forces
 
Note:
     defense is the responsibility of France
 
 
 
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This section of THE WORLD FACTBOOK 1994 produced by the United States
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was derived from the US Dept. of Commerce
Economics and Statistics Division's NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (NTDB) CD-ROM,
November, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/11/v.1-2 / Presented by Raleigh Muns,
(srcmuns@umslvma.umsl.edu) University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.