line: 518 km

Maritime claims: NA

International disputes: occupied by China, but claimed by Taiwan and
Vietnam

Climate: tropical

Terrain: NA

Natural resources: none

Land use:
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
meadows and pastures: 0%
forest and woodland: 0%
other: 100%

Irrigated land: 0 sq km

Environment:
current issues: NA
natural hazards: typhoons
international agreements: NA

@Paracel Islands:People

Population: no indigenous inhabitants; note - there are scattered
Chinese garrisons

@Paracel Islands:Government

Names:
conventional long form: none
conventional short form: Paracel Islands

Digraph: PF

@Paracel Islands:Economy

Overview: no economic activity

@Paracel Islands:Transportation

Ports: small Chinese port facilities on Woody Island and Duncan Island
being expanded

Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (on Woody Island)

@Paracel Islands:Communications

Telephone system:
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: NA

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM, FM, shortwave
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: NA
televisions: NA

@Paracel Islands:Defense Forces

Note: occupied by China

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PARAGUAY

@Paraguay:Geography

Location: Central South America, northeast of Argentina

Map references: South America

Area:
total area: 406,750 sq km
land area: 397,300 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than California

Land boundaries: total 3,920 km, Argentina 1,880 km, Bolivia 750 km,
Brazil 1,290 km

Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)

Maritime claims: none; landlocked

International disputes: short section of the boundary with Brazil,
just west of Salto del Guaira (Guaira Falls) on the Rio Parana, has
not been determined

Climate: varies from temperate in east to semiarid in far west

Terrain: grassy plains and wooded hills east of Rio Paraguay; Gran
Chaco region west of Rio Paraguay mostly low, marshy plain near the
river, and dry forest and thorny scrub elsewhere

Natural resources: hydropower, timber, iron ore, manganese, limestone

Land use:
arable land: 20%
permanent crops: 1%
meadows and pastures: 39%
forest and woodland: 35%
other: 5%

Irrigated land: 670 sq km (1989 est.)

Environment:
current issues: deforestation (an estimated 2 million hectares of
forest land have bee