_#_Terrain: rugged, volcanic; small scattered plateaus and plains
_#_Natural resources: fish; Ascension is a breeding ground for sea turtles and sooty terns; no minerals
_#_Land use: arable land 7%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 7%; forest and woodland 3%; other 83%
_#_Environment: very few perennial streams
_#_Note: located 1,920 km west of Angola, about two-thirds of the way between South America and Africa; Napoleon Bonaparte's place of exile and burial; the remains were taken to Paris in 1840
_*People #_Population: 6,695 (July 1991), growth rate 0.6% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 8 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: NEGl migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 46 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)