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ITEM ID     : CI WOFACT WO0093
DATE        : Oct 28, 1994
 
AGENCY      : CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
PROGRAM     : WORLD FACTBOOK
TITLE       : World Factbook: Glorioso Islands
 
Source key      : CI 
Program key     : CI WOFACT 
Update sched.   : Annually         
Data type       : TEXT 
End year        : 1994
Date of record  : 19941020
Keywords 3      :  
Keywords 3      : | Glorioso Islands 
 
 
                             Glorioso Islands
 
 
                                  Header
 
Affiliation:
     (possession of France)
 
                                 Geography
 
Location:
     Southern Africa, in the Indian Ocean just north of Madagascar
Map references:
     Africa
Area:
total area:
     5 sq km
land area:
     5 sq km
comparative area:
     about 8.5 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
note:
     includes Ile Glorieuse, Ile du Lys, Verte Rocks, Wreck Rock, and South
     Rock
Land boundaries:
     0 km
Coastline:
     35.2 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
     12 nm
exclusive economic zone:
     200 nm
territorial sea:
     12 nm
International disputes:
     claimed by Madagascar
Climate:
     tropical
Terrain:
     NA
Natural resources:
     guano, coconuts
Land use:
arable land:
     0%
permanent crops:
     0%
meadows and pastures:
     0%
forest and woodland:
     0%
other:
     100% (all lush vegetation and coconut palms)
Irrigated land:
     0 sq km
 
 
Environment:
current issues:
     NA
natural hazards:
     subject to periodic cyclones
international agreements:
     NA
 
                                  People
 
Population:
     uninhabited
 
                                Government
 
Names:
conventional long form:
     none
conventional short form:
local long form:
     none
local short form:
     Iles Glorieuses
Digraph:
     GO
Type:
     French possession administered by Commissioner of the Republic,
     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
Airports:
total:
     1
usable:
     1
with permanent-surface runways:
     0
with runsways over 3,659 m:
     0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
     0
 
 
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
     1
 
                              Defense Forces
 
Note:
     defense is the responsibility of France
 
 
 
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Economics and Statistics Division's NATIONAL TRADE DATA BANK (NTDB) CD-ROM,
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