Trinidad and Tobago

Location	Caribbean, islands between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Venezuela
Geographic coordinates	11 00 N, 61 00 W
Map references	Central America and the Caribbean
Area	total: 5,128 sq km land: 5,128 sq km water: 0 sq km
Area - comparative	slightly smaller than Delaware
Land boundaries	0 km
Coastline	362 km
Maritime claims	measured from claimed archipelagic baselines territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to the outer edge of the continental margin
Climate	tropical; rainy season (June to December)
Terrain	mostly plains with some hills and low mountains
Elevation extremes	lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: El Cerro del Aripo 940 m
Natural resources	petroleum, natural gas, asphalt
Land use	arable land: 14.62% permanent crops: 9.16% other: 76.22% (2005)
Irrigated land	70 sq km (2003)
Total renewable water resources	3.8 cu km (2000)
Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural)	total: 0.31 cu km/yr (68%/26%/6%) per capita: 237 cu m/yr (2000)
Natural hazards	outside usual path of hurricanes and other tropical storms
Environment - current issues	water pollution from agricultural chemicals, industrial wastes, and raw sewage; oil pollution of beaches; deforestation; soil erosion
Environment - international agreements	party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note	Pitch Lake, on Trinidad's southwestern coast, is the world's largest natural reservoir of asphalt