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Kosovo Geography 2012

SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES











Kosovo Geography 2012
SOURCE: 2012 CIA WORLD FACTBOOK AND OTHER SOURCES


Page last updated on February 8,

Location:
Southeast Europe, between Serbia and Macedonia

Geographic coordinates:
42 35 N, 21 00 E

Map references:
Europe

Area:
total: 10,887 sq km
[see also: Area - total country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 169
land: 10,887 sq km
[see also: Area - land country ranks ]
water: 0 sq km
[see also: Area - water country ranks ]

Area - comparative:
slightly larger than Delaware

Land boundaries:
total: 702 km
border countries: Albania 112 km, Macedonia 159 km, Montenegro 79 km, Serbia 352 km
[see also: Land boundaries country ranks ]

Coastline:
0 km (landlocked)
[see also: Coastline country ranks ]

Maritime claims:
none (landlocked)

Climate:
influenced by continental air masses resulting in relatively cold winters with heavy snowfall and hot, dry summers and autumns; Mediterranean and alpine influences create regional variation; maximum rainfall between October and December

Terrain:
flat fluvial basin with an elevation of 400-700 m above sea level surrounded by several high mountain ranges with elevations of 2,000 to 2,500 m

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Drini i Bardhe/Beli Drim 297 m (located on the border with Albania)
[see also: Elevation extremes - lowest point country ranks ]
highest point: Gjeravica/Deravica 2,656 m
[see also: Elevation extremes - highest point country ranks ]

Natural resources:
nickel, lead, zinc, magnesium, lignite, kaolin, chrome, bauxite


NOTE: 1) The information regarding Kosovo on this page is re-published from the 2012 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Kosovo Geography 2012 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Kosovo Geography 2012 should be addressed to the CIA.
2) The rank that you see is the CIA reported rank, which may habe the following issues:
  a) They assign increasing rank number, alphabetically for countries with the same value of the ranked item, whereas we assign them the same rank.
  b) The CIA sometimes assignes counterintuitive ranks. For example, it assigns unemployment rates in increasing order, whereas we rank them in decreasing order






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