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Source        :CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY 
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Program       :WORLD FACTBOOK 
Program key   :CI WOFACT 
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ID number     :CI WOFACT 024              
Title         :BASSAS DA INDIA 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1994
Date of record:02/16/1994
Keywords 3    : 
| BASSAS DA INDIA 
Text          : 
BASSAS DA INDIA 
Affiliation: (possession of France) 
 
GEOGRAPHY 
Location: Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about 
Map references: Africa 
 
Area: 
 
total area: NA km2 
 
land area: NA km2 
 
comparative area: NA 
 
Land boundaries: 0 km 
 
Coastline: 35.2 km 
 
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 km2 
 
Environment: surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones 
 
Note: navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide 
 
PEOPLE 
Population: uninhabited 
 
GOVERNMENT 
Names: 
 
conventional long form: none 
 
conventional short form: Bassas da India 
 
Type: French possession administered by Commissioner of the Republic 
Jacques DEWATRE (since July 1991), 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 1993 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 CD-ROM,
July, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/7/v.1-2 / R. Muns, UM-St. Louis Libraries 
Local Filename: WF940024.TXT