Map references
Africa

Area
Total area: 163,610 sq km
Land area: 155,360 sq km

Comparative area:
Slightly larger than Georgia


Land boundaries:
total 1,424 km, Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km

Coastline:
1,148 km

Maritime claims
Contiguous zone:
24 nm

Territorial sea:
12 nm

Malta and Tunisia are discussing the commercial exploitation of the continental shelf between their countries, particularly for oil exploration

Terrain:
Mountains in north; hot, dry central plain; semiarid south merges into the Sahara

Natural resources:
Petroleum, phosphates, iron ore, lead, zinc, salt

Land use:
Agrable land: 20% permanent crops: 10% meadows and pastures: 19% forest and woodland: 4% other: 47%

Irrigated land:
2,750 sq km (1989)