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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 077              
Title         :EUROPA ISLAND 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1994
Date of record:02/16/1994
Keywords 3    : 
| EUROPA ISLAND 
Text          : 
EUROPA ISLAND 
Affiliation: (possession of France) 
 
GEOGRAPHY 
Location: Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about 
Map references: Africa 
 
Area: 
 
total area: 28 km2 
 
land area: 28 km2 
 
comparative area: about 0.2 times the size of Washington, DC 
 
Land boundaries: 0 km 
 
Coastline: 22.2 km 
 
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm 
 
territorial sea: 12 nm 
 
International 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) 
 
Irrigated land: 0 km2 
 
Environment: wildlife sanctuary 
 
PEOPLE 
Population: uninhabited 
 
GOVERNMENT 
Names: 
 
conventional long form: none 
 
conventional short form: Europa Island 
 
local long form: none 
 
local short form: Ile Europa 
 
Digraph: EU 
 
 
Capital: none; administered by France from Reunion 
 
Independence: none (possession of France) 
 
ECONOMY 
Overview: no economic activity 
 
COMMUNICATIONS 
Ports: none; offshore anchorage only 
 
Airports: 
 
total: 1 
 
usable: 1 
 
with permanent-surface runways: 0 
 
with runways over 3,659 m: 0 
 
with runways 2,439-3,659 m: 0 
 
with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 1 
 
Telecommunications: 1 meteorological station 
 
Defense forces 
Note: defense is the responsibility of France 
 
 
 
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July, 1994, SuDoc No. C 1.88:994/7/v.1-2 / R. Muns, UM-St. Louis Libraries 
Local Filename: WF940076.TXT