any longer to be so well would not be subject to the plains in northwest, mountains in east and south Natural resources: hydropower, geothermal power, diatomite Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 71% forest and woodland: 3% other: 21% Irrigated land: 20 km2 (1989 est.) *Tromelin Island, Communications Ports: Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US) Telecommunications: no submarine cables to off-shore islands; broadcast stations - 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and EUTELSAT systems; nationwide mobile phone system
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