_#_Coastline: 5,313 km
_#_Maritime claims: (measured from claimed archipelagic baselines);
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Climate: tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
_#_Terrain: mostly rugged mountains with some low coral atolls
_#_Natural resources: fish, forests, gold, bauxite, phosphates
_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops 1%; meadows and pastures 1%; forest and woodland 93%; other 4%
_#_Environment: subject to typhoons, which are rarely destructive; geologically active region with frequent earth tremors
_#_Note: located just east of Papua New Guinea in the South Pacific Ocean