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Название: The 1999 CIA World Factbook

Автор: United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Издательство: Bookwire

Жанр: Социология

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">       expenditures: $218 million, including capital expenditures of $146

       million (1998 est.)

      Industries: cotton textiles, meat packing, beer brewing, natron

       (sodium carbonate), soap, cigarettes, construction materials

      Industrial production growth rate: 5% (1995)

      Electricity—production: 90 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—production by source: fossil fuel: 100% hydro: 0% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (1996)

      Electricity—consumption: 90 million kWh (1996)

      Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Electricity—imports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Agriculture—products: cotton, sorghum, millet, peanuts, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca); cattle, sheep, goats, camels

      Exports: $220 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

      Exports—commodities: cotton, cattle, textiles

      Exports—partners: Portugal 30%, Germany 14%, Thailand, Costa

       Rica, South Africa, France (1997)

      Imports: $252 million (f.o.b., 1998 est.)

      Imports—commodities: machinery and transportation equipment,

       industrial goods, petroleum products, foodstuffs, textiles

      Imports—partners: France 41%, Nigeria 10%, Cameroon 7%, India 6%

       (1997)

      Debt—external: $875 million (1995 est.)

      Economic aid—recipient: $238.3 million (1995); note?$125 million committed by Taiwan (August 1997); $30 million committed by African Development Bank

      Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

      Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine Francs (CFAF) per US$1—560.01 (December 1998), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      Communications

      Telephones: 5,000 (1987 est.)

      Telephone system: primitive system domestic: fair system of radiotelephone communication stations international: satellite earth station—1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 3 (one of the shortwave stations has three frequencies) (1998)

      Radios: NA

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (broadcasts 1800 to 2100 hours, four days per week) (1997)

      Televisions: 7,000 (1991 est.)

      Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 33,400 km paved: 267 km unpaved: 33,133 km (1996 est.)

      Waterways: 2,000 km navigable

      Ports and harbors: none

      Airports: 52 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 8 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with unpaved runways: total: 44 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 22 under 914 m: 10 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Armed Forces (includes Ground Force, Air

       Force, and Gendarmerie), Republican Guard, Rapid Intervention Force,

       Police

      Military manpower—military age: 20 years of age

      Military manpower—availability:

       males age 15–49: 1,689,112 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 875,541 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—reaching military age annually:

       males: 70,464 (1999 est.)

      Military expenditures—dollar figure: $39 million (1996)

      Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 3.5% (1996)

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: delimitation of international boundaries in the vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, is completed and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria

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      @Chile——

      Geography

      Location: Southern South America, bordering the South Atlantic

       Ocean and South Pacific Ocean, between Argentina and Peru

      Geographic coordinates: 30 00 S, 71 00 W

      Map references: South America

      Area:

       total: 756,950 sq km

       land: 748,800 sq km

       water: 8,150 sq km

       note: includes Easter Island (Isla de Pascua) and Isla Sala y Gomez

      Area—comparative: slightly smaller than twice the size of Montana

      Land boundaries: total: 6,171 km border countries: Argentina 5,150 km, Bolivia 861 km, Peru 160 km

      Coastline: 6,435 km

      Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm

      Climate: temperate; desert in north; cool and damp in south

      Terrain: low coastal mountains; fertile central valley; rugged

       Andes in east

      Elevation extremes:

       lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m

       highest point: Cerro Aconcagua 6,962 m

      Natural resources: copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious

       metals, molybdenum

      Land use:

       arable land: 5%

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