My World Factbook
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Geography
Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela
11 00 N, 61 00 W
Area: 
total: 5,128 sq km
country comparison to the world: 
173
land: 5,128 sq km
water: 0 sq km
slightly smaller than Delaware
0 km
362 km
measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin
Current Weather
tropical; rainy season (June to December)
mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m
highest point: El Cerro del Aripo 940 m
petroleum, natural gas, asphalt
arable land: 14.62%
permanent crops: 9.16%
other: 76.22% (2005)
40 sq km (2003)
3.8 cu km (2000)
total: 0.31 cu km/yr (68%/26%/6%)
per capita: 237 cu m/yr (2000)
outside usual path of hurricanes and other tropical storms
water pollution from agricultural chemicals, industrial wastes, and raw sewage; oil pollution of beaches; deforestation; soil erosion
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Pitch Lake, on Trinidad’s southwestern coast, is the world’s largest natural reservoir of asphalt
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