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| Choose the first letter to select required country: Geography Of Trinidad and Tobago
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| Location | Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela |
| Geographic coordinates | 11 00 N, 61 00 W |
| Map references | central_america |
| Area |
total: 5,128 sq km land: 5,128 sq km water: 0 sq km |
| Area comparative | slightly smaller than Delaware |
| Land boundaries | 0 km |
| Coastline | 362 km |
| Maritime claims | measured from claimed archipelagic baselines
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin contiguous zone: 24 nm territorial sea: 12 nm |
| Climate | tropical; rainy season (June to December) |
| Terrain | mostly plains with some hills and low mountains |
| Elevation extremes |
lowest point: caribbean sea 0 m highest point: el cerro del aripo 940 m |
| Natural resources | petroleum, natural gas, asphalt |
| Land use |
arable land: 14.62% permanent crops: 9.16% other: 76.22% (2001) |
| Irrigated land | 30 sq km (1998 est.) |
| Natural hazards | outside usual path of hurricanes and other tropical storms |
| Environment - current issues | water pollution from agricultural chemicals, industrial wastes, and raw sewage; oil pollution of beaches; deforestation; soil erosion |
| Environment - international agreements |
party to: biodiversity, climate change, climate change-kyoto protocol, desertification, endangered species, hazardous wastes, law of the sea, marine life conservation, ozone layer protection, ship pollution, tropical timber 83, tropical timber 94, wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements |
| Geography note | Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt |
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