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As of 2008 , it extended a total length of 36 kilometers , had six lines, and carried 39.152 million passengers annually.
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The authalic (equal area) radius of the Clarke 1866 ellipsoid is 6370997 meters .
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The resulting arcminute is 1853 meters .
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At 825615 sqkm , Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country (after Venezuela).
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The Central Plateau is home to the highest point in Namibia at Königstein elevation 2606 meters .
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The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 meters .
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The area receives a significantly greater amount of precipitation than the rest of the country, averaging around 400 mm per year.
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Temperature maxima are limited by the overall elevation of the entire region: only in the far south, Warmbad for instance, are maxima above 40 Coulomb recorded. "
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Humidity is low, and average rainfall varies from almost zero in the coastal desert to more than 600 mm in the Caprivi Strip.
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0
Weather and climate in the coastal area are dominated by the cold, north-flowing Benguela Current of the Atlantic Ocean, which accounts for very low precipitation ( 50 mm per year or less), frequent dense fog, and overall lower temperatures than in the rest of the country.
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At 824292 sqkm , Namibia is the world's thirty-fourth largest country.
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The Central Plateau is home to the highest point in Namibia at Königstein elevation 2606 meters . [
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Summer temperatures in the area can reach 40 °C , and frosts are common in the winter.
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The Great Escarpment swiftly rises to over 2000 meters .
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The area receives a significantly greater amount of precipitation than the rest of the country, averaging around 400 mm per year.
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For most of the year it is a dry, saline wasteland, but during the wet season, it forms a shallow lake covering more than 6000 sqkm .
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The longest river in Namibia is the Fish River with a length of 650 kilometers .
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The country's more than 44500 kilometers roads are administered by the Roads Authority, a state-owned enterprise established by Act #17 of 1999.
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25710 kilometers standard gravel road, covered with imported gravel.
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Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Kiribati, 300 kilometers to the east.
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It further lies northwest of Tuvalu, 1300 kilometers northeast of the Solomon Islands, east-northeast of Papua New Guinea, southeast of the Federated States of Micronesia and south of the Marshall Islands.
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With only a 21 sqkm area, Nauru is the third-smallest country in the world behind Vatican City, and Monaco, making it the smallest state in the South Pacific Ocean, the smallest state outside Europe, the smallest island state, and the smallest republic.
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The highest point of the plateau, called the Command Ridge, is 71 meters above sea level.
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Phosphate mining in the central plateau has left a barren terrain of jagged limestone pinnacles up to 15 meters high.
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It is only 53 kilometers south of the Equator at coordinates coord.
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Maritime claims are an Exclusive Economic Zone of 308480 sqkm with 200-nautical-miles (370 km), and a 12-nautical-mile (22 km) territorial sea.
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Located northeast of Jamaica, south of Cuba, 40 nautical miles west of Jérémie on the south west peninsula of Haiti, the island is subject to an ongoing territorial dispute between Haiti and the United States, which administers the island through the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Navassa Island is about 2 sqmi in area.
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In September 1999, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service established the Navassa Island National Wildlife Refuge, which encompasses 1344 acres of land and a 12 nautical mile (22.2 km) radius of marine habitat around the island.
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Nepal has an area of 147181 sqkm .
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Other indigenous Janajati ethnic groups -— natively speaking highly localized Tibeto-Burman languages and dialects -— populate hillsides up to about 2500 meters .
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There is increasing reliance on animal husbandry with elevation, using land above 2000 meters for summer grazing and moving herds to lower elevations in winter.
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Grain production has not kept pace with population growth at elevations above 1000 meters where colder temperatures inhibit double cropping.
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The Hilly ends where ridges begin substantially rising out of the temperate climate zone into subalpine zone above 3000 meters .
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The Mountain Region or Parbat begins where high ridges (Nepali: लेक; lekh) begin substantially rising above 3000 meters into the subalpine and alpine zone which are mainly used for seasonal pasturage.
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Permanent villages in the mountain region stand as high as 4500 meters with summer encampments even higher.
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The tropical zone below 1000 meters experiences frost less than once per decade.
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Annual precipitation reaches 5500 mm on windward slopes in the Annapurna Himalaya beyond a relatively low stretch of the Mahabharat Range.
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In rainshadows beyond the high mountains, annual precipitation drops as low as 160 mm .
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April and May are months of intense water stress when cumulative effects of the long dry season are exacerbated by temperatures rising over 40 °C in the tropical climate belt.
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At higher elevations, to 3000 meters , are found temperate broadleaf forests: eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests to the east of the Gandaki River and western Himalayan broadleaf forests to the west.
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To 5500 meters are the eastern and western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows.
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These tributaries cross the highest mountains in deep gorges, flow south through the Middle Hills, then join in candelabra-like configuration before crossing the Mahabharat Range and emerging onto the plains where they have deposited megafans exceeding 10000 sqkm in area.
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The Arun rises in Tibet some 150 kilometers beyond Nepal's northern border.
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25.4% of Nepal's land area, or about 36360 sqkm is covered with forest according to FAO figures from 2005.
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Between 2000 and 2005, Nepal lost about 2640 sqkm of forest.
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Nepal's 2000–2005 total deforestation rate was about 1.4% per year meaning it lost an average of 530 sqkm of forest annually.
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Nepal's total deforestation rate from 1990 to 2000 was 920 sqkm or 2.1% per year.
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The 2000–2005 true deforestation rate in Nepal, defined as the loss of primary forest, is −0.4% or 70 sqkm per year.
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The former is a 6 kilometers line from Raxaul, India to Sirsiya Inland Container Depot (or dry port) near Birganj, Nepal, and is primarily used for freight transport.
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The latter is a 28 kilometers line from Jaynagar, India to Janakpur, Nepal, and is used primarily for passenger transport.
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New Caledonia has a land area of 18576 sqkm divided into three provinces.
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The Diahot River is the longest river of New Caledonia, flowing for some 100 kilometers .
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It has a catchment area of 620 sqkm and opens north-westward into the Baie d'Harcourt, flowing towards the northern point of the island along the western escarpment of the Mount Panié.
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The New Caledonian lagoon, with a total area of 24000 sqkm is one of the largest lagoons in the world.
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The 3000 mm of rainfall recorded in Galarino are three times the average of the west coast.
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La Tontouta International Airport is 50 kilometers northwest of Nouméa, and connects New Caledonia with the airports of Paris, Tokyo, Sydney, Auckland, Brisbane, Melbourne, Osaka, Papeete, Fiji, Wallis, Port Vila, Seoul, and St. Denis.
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Approximately half the size of Taiwan, the group has a land area of 18575 sqkm .
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The islands have a coastline of 2254 kilometers .
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The Chesterfield Islands, 550 kilometers to the northwest, are reef outcroppings of the oceanic plateau.
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A mountain range runs the length of the island, with five peaks over 1500 meters .
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The highest point is Mont Panié at 1628 meters elevation.
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The Grande Terre group of New Caledonia, with Mont Panié at 1628 meters as its highest point, is the most elevated part of the Norfolk Ridge, a long and mostly underwater arm of the continent.
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Zealandia is 3500000 sqkm in area, larger than Greenland or India, and almost half the size of Australia.
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While rainfall in the neighboring Vanuatu islands averages two meters annually, from the north of New Caledonia to the south the rain decreases to a little over 1000 mm .
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The northeastern coast of the island receives the most rain, with 2400 mm having been recorded near sea level in Pouébo. ''
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The lowest point is the Pacific Ocean, with an elevation of 0 m, and the highest is Mont Panie, with an elevation of 1628 meters .
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In 1991, 160 sqkm of the land was irrigated.
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The third-largest is Stewart Island (or Rakiura), located 30 kilometers off the tip of the South Island across Foveaux Strait.
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The three largest islands stretch 1500 kilometers across latitudes 34° to 47° south.
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New Zealand is the sixth-largest island country in the world, with a land size of 267710 sqkm .
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The country is situated about 2000 kilometers south-east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, its closest neighbours to the north being New Caledonia, Tonga and Fiji.
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The land size of 267710 sqkm makes it the sixth-largest island country.
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The islands give it 15134 kilometers of coastline and extensive marine resources.
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New Zealand claims the 9th largest exclusive economic zone in the world, covering 4083744 sqkm , more than 15 times its land area.
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It is separated from the South Island by the Cook Strait, with the shortest distance being 23 kilometers .
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The North Island is less mountainous than the South Island, although a series of narrow mountain ranges form a roughly north-east belt that rises up to 1700 meters .
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This earthquake generated more than 6 meters of vertical uplift in places, and caused a localised tsunami.
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The plate boundary forms the nearly 800 kilometers long Alpine Fault.
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This fault has an estimated rupture reoccurrence interval of ~330 years, and last ruptured in 1717 along 400 kilometers of its length.
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The second highest peak is Mount Tasman, with a height of 3497 meters .
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The Waikato, flowing through the North Island, is the New Zealand's longest river, with a length of 425 kilometers .
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Most settled, lowland areas of the country have between 600 and 1,600 mm of rainfall, with the most rain along the west coast of the South Island and the least on the east coast of the South Island and interior basins, predominantly on the Canterbury Plains and the Central Otago Basin (about 350 mm ).
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These link to 82000 kilometers of local authority roads, both paved and unpaved.
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Speeds are often reduced to 30 kmph beside roadworks.
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Private landowners may set their own speed limits, for example 5 kmph , although these are not enforced by police of road authorities.
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under 914 meters : 1
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under 914 meters : 48
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Nicaragua occupies a landmass of 130967 sqkm , which makes it slightly larger than England.
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The low plains of the Atlantic Coast are 97 kilometers wide in areas.
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Most of the Pacific zone is tierra caliente, the "hot land" of tropical Spanish America at elevations under 2000 feet .
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The southwestern shore of Lake Nicaragua lies within 15 miles of the Pacific Ocean.
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Nicaragua's Bosawás Biosphere Reserve is in the Atlantic lowlands, part of which is located in the municipality of Siuna; it protects 1800000 acres of La Mosquitia forest – almost 7% of the country's area – making it the largest rainforest north of the Amazon in Brazil.
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The Nicaraguan jungles, which represent about 2 million acres , are considered the lungs of Central America and comprise the second largest-sized rainforest of the Americas.
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There are currently 78 protected areas in Nicaragua, covering more than 22000 sqkm , or about 17% of its landmass.
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The "hot land" is characteristic of the foothills and lowlands from sea level to about 750 meters of elevation.
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Niger covers a land area of almost 1270000 sqkm , making it the largest country in West Africa.
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Niger borders seven countries and has a total perimeter of 5697 kilometers .
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The longest border is with Nigeria to the south ( 1497 kilometers ).
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