_#_Terrain: mostly rugged and mountainous
_#_Natural resources: negligible mineral resources, fish
_#_Land use: arable land 13%; permanent crops 1%; meadows and pastures 1%; forest and woodland 67%; other 18%; includes irrigated 9%
_#_Environment: many dormant and some active volcanoes; about 1,500 seismic occurrences (mostly tremors) every year; subject to tsunamis
_#_Note: strategic location in northeast Asia
_*People #_Population: 124,017,137 (July 1991), growth rate 0.4% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 10 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 4 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)