The 1990 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other

      Environment: treeless, sparse and scattered vegetation consisting of grasses, prostrate vines, and low growing shrubs; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife

      Note: remote location 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu in the North Pacific

       Ocean, just north of the Equator, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia

      - People

       Population: uninhabited

      Note: American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military during World War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is by special-use permit only and generally restricted to scientists and educators; a cemetery and cemetery ruins located near the middle of the west coast

      - Government

       Long-form name: none

      Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system

      - Economy

       Overview: no economic activity

      - Communications Ports: none; offshore anchorage only, one boat landing area along the the middle of the west coast

      Airports: 1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m

      Note: there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast

      - Defense Forces

       Note: defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the

       US Coast Guard

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       Country: Bangladesh

       - Geography

       Total area: 144,000 km2; land area: 133,910 km2

      Comparative area: slightly smaller than Wisconsin

      Land boundaries: 4,246 km total; Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km

      Coastline: 580 km

      Maritime claims:

      Contiguous zone: 18 nm;

      Continental shelf: up to outer limits of continental margin;

      Extended economic zone: 200 nm;

      Territorial sea: 12 nm

      Disputes: a portion of the boundary with India is in dispute; water sharing problems with upstream riparian India over the Ganges

      Climate: tropical; cool, dry winter (October to March); hot, humid summer

       (March to June); cool, rainy monsoon (June to October)

      Terrain: mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast

      Natural resources: natural gas, uranium, arable land, timber

      Land use: 67% arable land; 2% permanent crops; 4% meadows and pastures; 16% forest and woodland; 11% other; includes 14% irrigated

      Environment: vulnerable to droughts; much of country routinely flooded during summer monsoon season; overpopulation; deforestation

      Note: almost completely surrounded by India

      - People

       Population: 118,433,062 (July 1990), growth rate 2.8% (1990)

      Birth rate: 42 births/1,000 population (1990)

      Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1990)

      Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990)

      Infant mortality rate: 136 deaths/1,000 live births (1990)

      Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 53 years female (1990)

      Total fertility rate: 5.7 children born/woman (1990)

      Nationality: noun—Bangladeshi(s); adjective—Bangladesh

      Ethnic divisions: 98% Bengali; 250,000 Biharis, and less than 1 million tribals

      Religion: 83% Muslim, about 16% Hindu, less than 1% Buddhist, Christian, and other

      Language: Bangla (official), English widely used

      Literacy: 29% (39% men, 18% women)

      Labor force: 35,100,000; 74% agriculture, 15% services, 11% industry and commerce; extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and Kuwait (FY86)

      Organized labor: 3% of labor force belongs to 2,614 registered unions (1986 est.)

      - Government

       Long-form name: People's Republic of Bangladesh

      Type: republic

      Capital: Dhaka

      Administrative divisions: 64 districts (zillagulo,

       singular—zilla); Bagerhat, Bandarban, Barisal, Bhola, Bogra,

       Borguna, Brahmanbaria, Chandpur, Chapai Nawabganj,

       Chattagram, Chuadanga, Comilla, Cox's Bazar, Dhaka,

       Dinajpur, Faridpur, Feni, Gaibandha, Gazipur, Gopalganj,

       Habiganj, Jaipurhat, Jamalpur, Jessore, Jhalakati, Jhenaidah,

       Khagrachari, Khulna, Kishorganj, Kurigram, Kushtia, Laksmipur,

       Lalmonirhat, Madaripur, Magura, Manikganj, Meherpur,

       Moulavibazar, Munshiganj, Mymensingh, Naogaon, Narail,

       Narayanganj, Narsingdi, Nator, Netrakona, Nilphamari,

       Noakhali, Pabna, Panchagar, Parbattya Chattagram,

       Patuakhali, Pirojpur, Rajbari, Rajshahi, Rangpur,

       Satkhira, Shariyatpur, Sherpur, Sirajganj, Sunamganj, Sylhet,

       Tangail, Thakurgaon

      Independence: 16 December 1971 (from Pakistan; formerly East Pakistan)

      Constitution: 4 November 1972, effective 16 December 1972, suspended following coup of 24 March 1982, restored 10 November 1986

      Legal system: based on English common law

      National holiday: Independence Day, 26 March (1971)

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