Country:  Navassa Island
(territory of the US)
- Geography
Total area: 5.2 km2; land area: 5.2 km2
 
Comparative area: about nine times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
 
Land boundaries: none
 
Coastline: 8 km
 
Maritime claims:
 
Contiguous zone: 12 nm;
 
Continental shelf: 200 m;
 
Extended economic zone: 200 nm;
 
Territorial sea: 12 nm
 
Disputes: claimed by Haiti
 
Climate: marine, tropical
 
Terrain: raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating; ringed by
vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 meters high)
 
Natural resources: guano
 
Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 10% meadows and pastures;
0% forest and woodland; 90% other
 
Environment: mostly exposed rock, but enough grassland to support goat
herds; dense stands of fig-like trees, scattered cactus
 
Note: strategic location between Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica in the
Caribbean Sea; 160 km south of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba
 
- People
Population: uninhabited; transient Haitian fishermen and others camp on
the island
 
- Government
Long-form name: none (territory of the US)
 
Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the US Coast
Guard
 
- Economy
Overview: no economic activity
 
- Communications
Ports: none; offshore anchorage only
 
- Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of the US