CIA WORLD FACTBOOK 1992 via the Libraries of the Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
 
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Source        :CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
Source key    :CI 
Program       :WORLD FACTBOOK 
Program key   :CI WOFACT 
Update sched. :Annually         
ID number     :CI WOFACT 024              
Title         :Vital Statistics - BASSAS DA INDIA 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1993
Date of record:01/22/1993
Country       : 
| BASSAS DA INDIA 
Text          : 
BASSAS DA INDIA 
(possession of France) 
 
GEOGRAPHY 
Total area: NA 
 
Land area: undetermined 
 
Comparative area: undetermined 
 
Land boundaries: none 
 
Coastline: 35.2 km 
 
Maritime claims: 
 
Contiguous zone: 12 nm 
 
Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation 
 
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm 
 

 
Territorial sea: 12 nm 
 
Disputes: claimed by Madagascar 
 
Climate: tropical 
 
Terrain: a volcanic rock 2.4 m high 
 
Natural resources: none 
 
Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 0%; 
forest and woodland 0%; other (rock) 100% 
 
Environment: surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones 
 
Note: navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high 
tide; located in southern Mozambique Channel about halfway between Africa 
and Madagascar 
 
PEOPLE 
Population: uninhabited 
 
GOVERNMENT 
Long-form name: none 
 
Type: French possession administered by Commissioner of the Republic 
Jacques DEWATRE (since July 1991), resident in Reunion 
 
Capital: none; administered by France from Reunion 
 
ECONOMY 
Overview: no economic activity 
 
COMMUNICATIONS 
Ports: none; offshore anchorage only 
 
DEFENSE FORCES 
Note: defense is the responsibility of France 
 
 
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These files extracted from Dept. of Commerce's National Trade Databank (NTDB)
CD-ROM, SuDoc no. C 1.88:993/11 using software developed by RCM of the Univ.
of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries, 12/1/1993 :/ WF930029