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}
},
"Area - comparative": {
"text": "slightly less than 6.5 times the size of the US"
"text": "about 7.5 times the size of the US"
},
"Coastline": {
"text": "111,866 km"
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"Terrain": {
"text": "surface usually covered with sea ice in Labrador Sea, Denmark Strait, and coastal portions of the Baltic Sea from October to June; clockwise warm-water gyre (broad, circular system of currents) in the northern Atlantic, counterclockwise warm-water gyre in the southern Atlantic; the ocean floor is dominated by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a rugged north-south centerline for the entire Atlantic basin"
},
"Elevation extremes": {
"lowest point": {
"text": "Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 m"
"Elevation": {
"mean depth": {
"text": "-3,646 m"
},
"highest point": {
"text": "sea level 0 m"
"elevation extremes": {
"text": "lowest point: Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench -8,605 m ++ highest point: sea level 0 m"
}
},
"Natural resources": {
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"text": "major chokepoints include the Dardanelles, Strait of Gibraltar, access to the Panama and Suez Canals; strategic straits include the Strait of Dover, Straits of Florida, Mona Passage, The Sound (Oresund), and Windward Passage; the Equator divides the Atlantic Ocean into the North Atlantic Ocean and South Atlantic Ocean"
}
},
"Government": {
"Country name": {
"etymology": {
"text": "name derives from the Greek description of the waters beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, Atlantis thalassa, meaning \"Sea of Atlas\""
}
}
},
"Economy": {
"Economy - overview": {
"text": "The Atlantic Ocean provides some of the world's most heavily trafficked sea routes, between and within the Eastern and Western Hemispheres. Other economic activity includes the exploitation of natural resources, e.g., fishing, dredging of aragonite sands (The Bahamas), and production of crude oil and natural gas (Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and North Sea)."