Resources and Land Use
- Natural resources
- Petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, nonferrous metals, bauxite, and underground water.
- Land use
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- Arable land: 20.62%
- Permanent crops: 2.61%
- Other: 77.77% (2005 est.)
- Irrigated land
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- 14,550 km² (2003)
- Total renewable water resources
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- 30.3 cu m (1997)
- Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)
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- Total: 17.25 cu km/yr (5%/28%/68%)
- Per capita: 2,051 cu m/yr (2000)
- Natural hazards
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- droughts
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