Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Climate: tropical to subtropical
_#_Terrain: mostly coastal lowlands, uplands in center, high plateaus in northwest, mountains in west
_#_Natural resources: coal, titanium
_#_Land use: arable land 4%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 56%; forest and woodland 20%; other 20%; includes irrigated NEGL%
_#_Environment: severe drought and floods occur in south; desertification
_*People #_Population: 15,113,282 (July 1991), growth rate 4.6% (1991); note—900,000 Mozambican refugees in Malawi (1990 est.)
_#_Birth rate: 46 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 17 deaths/1,000 population (1991)