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| World Fact Book
| Mark H. Solsman
| Documentation Training and Publications, Center for Academic Computing
| mhs108@psu.edu  10/19/93
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_@_Europa Island Geography
 
Total area:
    28 km2
Land area:
    28 km2
Comparative area:
    about 0.2 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
    none
Coastline:
    22.2 km
Maritime claims:
  Exclusive economic zone:
    200 nm
  Territorial sea:
    12 nm
Disputes:
    claimed by Madagascar
Climate:
    tropical
Terrain:
    NA
Natural resources:
    negligible
Land use:
    arable land NA%; permanent crops NA%; meadows and pastures NA%; forest and
    woodland NA%; other NA%; heavily wooded
Environment:
    wildlife sanctuary
Note:
    located in the Mozambique Channel 340 km west of Madagascar
 
:Europa Island People
 
Population:
    uninhabited
 
:Europa Island Government
 
Long-form name:
    none
Type:
    French possession administered by Commissioner of the Republic Jacques
    DEWATRE (as of July 1991); resident in Reunion
Capital:
    none; administered by France from Reunion
 
:Europa Island Economy
 
Overview:
    no economic activity
 
:Europa Island Communications
 
Ports:
    none; offshore anchorage only
Airports:
    1 with runways 1,220 to 2,439 m
Telecommunications:
    1 meteorological station
 
:Europa Island Defense Forces
 
Note:
    defense is the responsibility of France
 
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