Location:
Central Europe, between Austria and Switzerland
Geographic coordinates:
47 16 N, 9 32 E
Map references:
Europe
Area: Area - comparative: Land boundaries: Coastline: Maritime claims: Climate: Terrain: Elevation: Natural resources: Land use: Irrigated land: Population - distribution: Environment - current issues: Environment - international agreements: Geography - note:
total: 160 sq km
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land: 160 sq km
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water: 0 sq km
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country comparison to the world: 219
about 0.9 times the size of Washington, DC
total: 75 km
border countries (2): Austria 34 km, Switzerland 41 km
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0 km (doubly landlocked)
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none (landlocked)
continental; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow or rain; cool to moderately warm, cloudy, humid summers
mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley in western third
mean elevation: NA
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elevation extremes: lowest point: Ruggeller Riet 430 m
highest point: Vorder-Grauspitz 2,599 m
hydroelectric potential, arable land
agricultural land: 37.6%
arable land 18.8%; permanent crops 0%; permanent pasture 18.8%
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forest: 43.1%
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other: 19.3% (2011 est.)
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0 sq km (2012)
[see also: Irrigated land country ranks ]
most of the population is found in the western half of the country along the Rhine River
NA
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea
along with Uzbekistan, one of only two doubly landlocked countries in the world; variety of microclimatic variations based on elevation