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Clipperton Island (French: Île de Clipperton and sometimes Île de la Passion) is a seven-square-kilometer coral atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, south of Mexico and west of Costa Rica, at . It has no permanent inhabitants, only temporary residents in a weather station.

It is an overseas possession of France administered from French Polynesia by its gubernatorial high commissioner of the Republic. Its FIPS 10-4 data code is IP, but ISO 3166 has reserved the code CP for Clipperton Island on request of the ITU.

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Although 115 species of fish have been identified in the territorial waters of Clipperton, the only economic activity is tuna fishing. It has no other natural resources.

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