The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ - products: bananas, sugarcane, tropical fruits and vegetables; cattle, pigs, goats

      Exports:

       $140 million f.o.b. (1997)

      Exports - commodities:

       bananas, sugar, rum

      Exports - partners:

       France 60%, Martinique 18%, US 4% (1999)

      Imports:

       $1.7 billion c.i.f. (1997)

      Imports - commodities:

       foodstuffs, fuels, vehicles, clothing and other consumer goods,

       construction materials

      Imports - partners:

       France 63%, Germany 4%, US 3%, Japan 2%, Netherlands Antilles 2%

       (1999)

      Debt - external:

       $NA

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $NA; note - substantial annual French subsidies

      Currency:

       euro (EUR); French franc (FRF)

      Currency code:

       EUR; FRF

      Exchange rates:

       euros per US dollar - 1.06 1.0626 (2002), 1.1175 (2001), 1.0854

       (2000), 0.9386 (1999); French francs per US dollar - 5.8995 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Guadeloupe

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       171,000 (1996)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       NA

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: domestic facilities inadequate

       domestic: NA

       international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic

       Ocean); microwave radio relay to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, and

       Martinique

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 1, FM 17, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios:

       113,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       5 (plus several low-power repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       118,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .gp

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       3 (2000)

      Internet users:

       4,000 (2000)

      Transportation Guadeloupe

      Railways:

       NA km; privately owned, narrow-gauge plantation lines

      Highways: total: 2,467 km paved: NA km unpaved: NA km (1998)

      Waterways:

       none

      Ports and harbors:

       Basse-Terre, Gustavia (on Saint Barthelemy), Marigot, Pointe-a-Pitre

      Merchant marine:

       total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 1,240 GRT/109 DWT

       ships by type: passenger 1

       note: includes a foreign-owned ship registered here as a flag of

       convenience: France 1 (2002 est.)

      Airports:

       9 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 8 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 5 (2002)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 1

       under 914 m: 1 (2002)

      Military Guadeloupe

      Military branches:

       no regular indigenous military forces; French Forces, Gendarmerie

      Military - note:

       defense is the responsibility of France

      Transnational Issues Guadeloupe

      Disputes - international: none

      This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003

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      @Guam

      Introduction Guam

      Background:

       Guam was ceded to the US by Spain in 1898. Captured by the Japanese

       in 1941, it was retaken by the US three years later. The military

       installation on the island is one of the most strategically

       important US bases in the Pacific.

      Geography Guam

      Location:

       Oceania, island in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of

       the way from Hawaii to the Philippines

      Geographic coordinates:

       13 28 N, 144 47 E

      Map references:

       Oceania

      Area:

       total: 549 sq km

       water: 0 sq km

       land: 549 sq km

      Area - comparative:

       three times the size of Washington, DC

      Land СКАЧАТЬ