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Geography
Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana
4 00 N, 56 00 W
Area: 
total: 163,820 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
91
land: 156,000 sq km
water: 7,820 sq km
slightly larger than Georgia
total: 1,703 km
border countries: Brazil 593 km, French Guiana 510 km, Guyana 600 km
386 km
territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
Current Weather
tropical; moderated by trade winds
mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps
lowest point: unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m
highest point: Juliana Top 1,230 m
timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp, bauxite, gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron ore
arable land: 0.36%
permanent crops: 0.06%
other: 99.58% (2005)
510 sq km (2003)
122 cu km (2003)
total: 0.67 cu km/yr (4%/3%/93%)
per capita: 1,489 cu m/yr (2000)
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deforestation as timber is cut for export; pollution of inland waterways by small-scale mining activities
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
smallest independent country on South American continent; mostly tropical rain forest; great diversity of flora and fauna that, for the most part, is increasingly threatened by new development; relatively small population, mostly along the coast
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