Total Area: 36,125 sq km
Land Area: 28,120 sq km
Water Area: 8,005 sq km
Climate description: tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds
Terrain description: mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
Arable Land Use: 8.31%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 6.92%
Irrigated Land: 250 sq km (2003)
Total Renewable Water Resources: 31 cu km (2003)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 0.18 cu km/yr (13%/5%/82%)
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 113 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural Hazards description: hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season; brush fires
Environmental Current Issues: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Total Labor Force: 632,700 (2007)
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 82%
Agricultural Products description: rice, corn, beans, cassava (manioc), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish
Land Area: 28,120 sq km
Water Area: 8,005 sq km
Climate description: tropical; generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds
Terrain description: mostly low coastal plain rising to savanna in east
Arable Land Use: 8.31%
Permanent Crop Land Use: 6.92%
Irrigated Land: 250 sq km (2003)
Total Renewable Water Resources: 31 cu km (2003)
Total Freshwater Withdrawal: 0.18 cu km/yr (13%/5%/82%)
Per Person Freshwater Withdrawal: 113 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural Hazards description: hot, dry, dusty harmattan haze may reduce visibility during dry season; brush fires
Environmental Current Issues: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Total Labor Force: 632,700 (2007)
% of Labor Force in Agriculture: 82%
Agricultural Products description: rice, corn, beans, cassava (manioc), cashew nuts, peanuts, palm kernels, cotton; timber; fish