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Detailed Analysis for Year: 2015
Full Dataset: from 1993 to 2014
Dataset updated: 17th March 2015
Data Source: CIA Factbook
National or Regional Currency: Bahraini Dinar
Currency Symbol: BHD
Location: Middle East, archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi Arabia
Geographic Coordinates: 26 00 N, 50 33 E
Map References: Middle East
Area: total: 760 sq km ; land: 760 sq km ; water: 0 sq km
Area - Comparative: 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Terrain: mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment
Elevation Extremes(M): lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m ; highest point: Jabal ad Dukhan 122 m
Land Boundaries(Km): 0 km
Coastline: 161 km
Maritime Claims: territorial sea: 12 nm ; contiguous zone: 24 nm ; continental shelf: extending to boundaries to be determined
Geography - Note: close to primary Middle Eastern petroleum sources; strategic location in Persian Gulf, through which much of the Western world's petroleum must transit to reach open ocean