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СКАЧАТЬ est.)

      Budget:

       revenues: $766 million

       expenditures: $845 million, including capital expenditures of $97

       million (FY97/98)

      Industries: tourism, banking, cement, oil refining and transshipment, salt production, rum, aragonite, pharmaceuticals, spiral-welded steel pipe

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity—production: 1 billion kWh (1996)

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

      Electricity—consumption: 1 billion kWh (1996)

      Electricity—exports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Electricity—imports: 0 kWh (1996)

      Agriculture—products: citrus, vegetables; poultry

      Exports: $300 million (1998)

      Exports—commodities: pharmaceuticals, cement, rum, crawfish,

       refined petroleum products

      Exports—partners: US 24.5%, EU (excluding UK) 23.9%, UK 12.6%,

       Singapore 5.6% (1997)

      Imports: $1.37 billion (1998)

      Imports—commodities: foodstuffs, manufactured goods, crude oil,

       vehicles, electronics

      Imports—partners: US 34.9%, EU 24.3%, Japan 15.5%, Russia 6.3%

       (1997)

      Debt—external: $381.7 million (1997)

      Economic aid—recipient: $9.8 million (1995)

      Currency: 1 Bahamian dollar (B$) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: Bahamian dollar (B$) per US$1—1.000 (fixed rate pegged to the dollar)

      Fiscal year: 1 July—30 June

      Communications

      Telephones: 200,000 (1997 est.)

      Telephone system:

       domestic: 91,183 telephone subscribers; totally automatic system;

       highly developed

       international: tropospheric scatter and submarine cable to Florida;

       3 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth station—1 Intelsat

       (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios: 200,000 (1993 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (1997)

      Televisions: 60,000 (1993 est.)

      Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total: 2,693 km paved: 1,546 km unpaved: 1,147 km (1997 est.)

      Ports and harbors: Freeport, Matthew Town, Nassau

      Merchant marine:

       total: 1,079 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 26,631,924

       GRT/41,196,326 DWT

       ships by type: bulk 209, cargo 241, chemical tanker 43, combination

       bulk 13, combination ore/oil 22, container 61, liquefied gas tanker

       34, livestock carrier 1, oil tanker 170, passenger 62,

       passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier 1, refrigerated cargo 140,

       roll-on/roll-off cargo 48, short-sea passenger 12, specialized

       tanker 2, vehicle carrier 19

       note: a flag of convenience registry; includes ships from 49

       countries among which are Norway 177, Greece 141, UK 113, US 61,

       Denmark 39, Finland 27, Japan 25, Sweden 24, France 22, and Italy 22

       (1998 est.)

      Airports: 62 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 33 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 15 914 to 1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with unpaved runways: total: 29 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 7 under 914 m: 21 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Royal Bahamas Defense Force (Coast Guard only), Royal Bahamas Police Force

      Military expenditures—dollar figure: $20 million (FY95/96)

      Military expenditures—percent of GDP: NA%

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: none

      Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for US and Europe; banking industry vulnerable to money laundering

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      @Bahrain———

      Geography

      Location: Middle East, archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of

       Saudi Arabia

      Geographic coordinates: 26 00 N, 50 33 E

      Map references: Middle East

      Area:

       total: 620 sq km

       land: 620 sq km

       water: 0 sq km

      Area—comparative: 3.5 times the size of Washington, DC

      Land boundaries: 0 km

      Coastline: 161 km

      Maritime claims:

       contiguous zone: 24 nm

       continental shelf: extending to boundaries to be determined

       territorial sea: 12 nm

      Climate: arid; mild, pleasant winters; very hot, humid summers

      Terrain: mostly low desert plain rising gently to low central escarpment

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Persian Gulf 0 m highest СКАЧАТЬ