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СКАЧАТЬ (2001), 8.083 (2000), 6.976 (1999)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Greenland

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       26,000 (2001)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       16,747 (2001)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: adequate domestic and international service

       provided by satellite, cables and microwave radio relay; totally

       digitalized in 1995

       domestic: microwave radio relay and satellite

       international: country code - 299; satellite earth stations - 12

       Intelsat, 1 Eutelsat, 2 Americom GE-2 (all Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 5, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)

      Radios:

       30,000 (1998 est.)

      Television broadcast stations:

       1 publicly-owned station, some local low-power stations, and three

       AFRTS (US Air Force) stations (1997)

      Televisions:

       30,000 (1998 est.)

      Internet country code:

       .gl

      Internet hosts:

       2,642 (2004)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       1 (2000)

      Internet users:

       20,000 (2002)

      Transportation Greenland

      Highways:

       total: NA (there are no roads between towns) (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Aasiaat (Egedesminde), Ilulissat (Jakobshavn), Kangerlussuaq,

       Nanortalik, Narsarsuaq, Nuuk (Godthab), Qaqortoq (Julianehab),

       Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Tasiilaq

      Merchant marine:

       total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 4,593 GRT/3,640 DWT

       foreign-owned: Denmark 1 (2004 est.)

       by type: cargo 2, passenger 1

      Airports:

       14 (2003 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 9 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 5

       1,524 to 2,437 m: 1

       914 to 1,523 m: 2

       under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)

      Military Greenland

      Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Denmark

      Transnational Issues Greenland

      Disputes - international: uncontested dispute between Canada and Denmark over Hans Island in the Kennedy Channel between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland

      This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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      @Grenada

      Introduction Grenada

      Background:

       One of the smallest independent countries in the western

       hemisphere, Grenada was seized by a Marxist military council on 19

       October 1983. Six days later the island was invaded by US forces and

       those of six other Caribbean nations, which quickly captured the

       ringleaders and their hundreds of Cuban advisers. Free elections

       were reinstituted the following year.

      Geography Grenada

      Location:

       Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean,

       north of Trinidad and Tobago

      Geographic coordinates:

       12 07 N, 61 40 W

      Map references:

       Central America and the Caribbean

      Area:

       total: 344 sq km

       water: 0 sq km

       land: 344 sq km

      Area - comparative:

       twice the size of Washington, DC

      Land boundaries:

       0 km

      Coastline:

       121 km

      Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

      Climate:

       tropical; tempered by northeast trade winds

      Terrain:

       volcanic in origin with central mountains

      Elevation extremes:

       lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m

       highest point: Mount Saint Catherine 840 m

      Natural resources:

       timber, tropical fruit, deepwater harbors

      Land use: arable land: 5.88% permanent crops: 29.41% other: 64.71% (2001)

      Irrigated land:

       NA sq km

      Natural hazards:

       lies on edge of hurricane belt; hurricane season lasts from June СКАЧАТЬ