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| Choose the first letter to select required country: Geography Of Bahrain
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| Location | Middle East, archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia |
| Geographic coordinates | 26 00 N, 50 33 E |
| Map references | middle_east |
| Area |
total: 665 sq km water: 0 sq km land: 665 sq km |
| Area comparative | 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC |
| Land boundaries | 0 km |
| Coastline | 161 km |
| Maritime claims |
territorial sea: 12 nm continental shelf: extending to boundaries to be determined contiguous zone: 24 nm |
| Climate | arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers |
| Terrain | mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: persian gulf 0 m highest point: jabal ad dukhan 122 m |
| Natural resources | oil, associated and nonassociated natural gas, fish, pearls |
| Land use |
arable land: 2.82% permanent crops: 5.63% other: 91.55% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 50 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | periodic droughts; dust storms |
| Environment - current issues | desertification resulting from the degradation of limited arable land, periods of drought, and dust storms; coastal degradation (damage to coastlines, coral reefs, and sea vegetation) resulting from oil spills and other discharges from large tankers, oil refineries, and distribution stations; lack of freshwater resources, groundwater and seawater are the only sources for all water needs |
| Environment - international agreements |
party to: biodiversity, climate change, desertification, hazardous wastes, law of the sea, ozone layer protection, wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Geography note | close to primary Middle Eastern petroleum sources; strategic location in Persian Gulf, through which much of the Western world's petroleum must transit to reach open ocean |
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