1986 Edition

Agriculture

sheep and cattle grazing Fiji

main crops — sugar, copra, ginger, rice; major deficiency, grains

animal husbandry, especially dairying, predominates; forestry important secondary occupation for rural population; main crops — cereals, sugar beets, potatoes; 85% self-sufficient; shortages — food and fodder grains

Western Europe's foremost producer; main products— beef, dairy products, cereals, sugar beets, potatoes, wine grapes; self-sufficient for most temperate zone foodstuffs; agricultural shortages — fats and oils, tropical produce

limited vegetables for local consumption; rice, corn, manioc, cocoa, bananas, sugar

main crop — coconuts

commercial — cocoa, coffee, wood, palm oil, rice; main food crops — pineapples, bananas, manioc, peanuts, root crops; imports food

Aid

economic commitments — Western (non-US) countries (1980-82), $438 million

donor — ODA and OOF economic aid commitments (1970-83), $793 million Budget (1984) expenditures, $14.4 billion, revenues, $12.8 billion

donor — ODA and OOF economic aid commitments (1970-83), $33.2 billion

economic — bilateral commitments, ODA and OOF (FY70-79), from Western (non-US) countries, $700 million, no military aid

France $91 million (1978)

Airfields

5 total, 5 usable, 2 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439

1 usable with permanent-surface runways 1,220-2,439 m

27 total, 26 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways, 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 2 with runways 1, 220-2,439 m

163 total, 160 usable; 47 with permanent-surface runways; 20 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 22 with runways 1, 220-2,439 m

468 total, 454 usable; 248 with permanent-surface runways; 3 with runways over 3,659 m, 34 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 130 with runways 1, 220-2,439 m

1 1 total, 1 1 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 1 with runways 1, 220-2,439 m

41 total, 41 usable; 25 with permanent-surface runways, 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 14 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Branches

legislative authority rests jointly with Crown, acting through appointed High Commissioner, and 32-member provincial parliament (Lagting) in matters of strictly Faroese concern; executive power vested in Crown, acting through High Commissioner, but exercised by provincial cabinet responsible to provincial parliament

executive — Prime Minister and Cabinet; legislative — 52-member House of Representatives; 22-member appointed Senate; judicial — Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, Magistrate's Courts

integrated ground and naval forces

legislative authority rests jointly with President and unicameral legislature (Eduskunta); executive power vested in President and exercised through coalition Cabinet responsible to parliament; Supreme Court, four superior courts, 193 lower courts

Army, Navy, Air Force

presidentially appointed Prime Minister heads Council of Ministers, which is formally responsible to National Assembly; bicameral legislature — National Assembly (currently 491 members but will expand to 577 as of 16 March 1986), Senate (304 members) — restricted to a delaying action; judiciary independent in principle

Army of the Ground, Navy, Army of the Air, National Gendarmerie

executive: Prefect appointed by Paris; legislative — popularly elected 16member General Council and a Regional Council composed of members of the local General Council and of the locally elected deputy and senator to the French parliament; judicial, under jurisdiction of French judicial system

30-member Territorial Assembly, popularly elected; 5-member Council of Government, elected by Assembly; popular election of two deputies to National Assembly and one senator to Senate in Paris

power centralized in President, elected by universal suffrage for seven-year term; unicameral legislature (93member National Assembly, including nine members chosen by Omar Bongo) has limited powers; constitution amended in 1979 so that Assembly deputies will serve five-year terms; independent judiciary

Budget

(FY81) expenditures, $98.8 million, revenues, $98.8 million

(1984 est.) revenues, $304 million; expenditures, $376 million

(proposed for 1986) expenditures, 1,030 billion francs; revenues, 889 billion francs; deficit, 141 billion francs

$101 million (1982)

$180 million in 1979; ODA and OOF commitments from Western (non-US countries)

Capital

Torshavn on the island of Streymoy

Suva, located on the south coast of the island of Viti Levu

Helsinki

Paris

Cayenne

Papeete

Libreville

Civil air

no major transport aircraft

1 DC-3and 1 light aircraft

39 major transport

355 major transport aircraft (1982)

no major transport aircraft

about 6 major transport aircraft

Coastline

764 km People

1,129 km People

1,126 km (approx.) excludes islands and coastal indentations People

3,427 km (includes Corsica, 644 km) People

378 km People

about 2,525 km People

885 km People

Communists

insignificant number

some

28,000 registered members; an additional 45,000 persons belong to People's Democratic League

700,000 claimed but probably closer to 150,000; Communist voters, 2.7 million in 1986 elections

Communist party membership negligible Member of :W¥T\J Economy

no organized party; probably some Communist sympathizers

Crude steel

2.6 million metric tons produced (1984), 533 kg per capita

19 million metric tons produced (1984), 347 kg per capita

Elections

held every four years; most recent, 8 November 1984 Political parties and leaders: four-party ruling coalition — Social Democratic, Atli Dam; Republican, Erlendur Patursson; Home Rule, Tobjorn Poulsen; Peoples, Jogvan Sundstein

every five years unless House dissolves earlier; last held July 1982

parliamentary, every four years (next in 1987); presidential, every six years (next in 1988) Political parties and leaders: Social Democratic Party, Kalevi Sorsa; Center Party, Paavo Vayrynen; People's Democratic League (Communist front), Esko Helle; Conservative Party, Ilkka Suominen; Liberal Party, Kyosti Lallukka; Swedish Peoples Party, Christoffer Taxell; Rural Party, Pekka Vennamo; Finnish Communist Party, Arvo Aalto; Finnish Christian League, Esko Almgren; Constitutional People's Party, Georg Ehrnrooth; League for Citizen Power, Kaarlo Pitsinki

National Assembly — every five years, last election March 1986; proportional representation, with minimum 5 percent of the vote; Senate — indirect collegiate system for riine years, renewable by one-third every three years, last election September 1983; President, direct, universal suffrage every seven years, two ballots, last election May Political parties and leaders: majority coalition—Rally for the Republic (RPR, formerly UDR), Jacques Chirac; Union for French Democracy (UDF, federation of PR, CDS, and RAD), Jean Lecanuet; Republicans (PR), Francois Leotard; Center for Social Democrats (CDS), Pierre Mehaignerie; Radical (RAD), Andre Rossinot; left opposition — Socialist Party (PS), Lionel Jospin; Left Radical Movement (MRG), Francois Doubin; Communist Party (PCF), Georges Marchais

General Council elections normally are held every five years; last election February 1983 Political parties and leaders: Guianese Socialist Party (PSG), Raymond Tarcy (senator), Leopold Helder; Union of the Guianese People (UPG), weak leftist party allied with and reported to have been absorbed by the PSG; Rally for the Republic (RPR), Hector Rivierez

every five years; last held in May Political parties and leaders: Tahoeraa Huiraatira (Gaullist), Gaston Flosse; Ai'a Api (New Country Party), Emile Vernaudon; Here Ai'a, Jean Juventin; la Mana (Socialist), Jacques Crollet; Te E'a Api (Socialist), Jacques VII

presidential election last held December 1979, next scheduled for 1986; parliamentary election last held February 1980, next scheduled for 1985; constitutional change separates dates for presidential and parliamentary elections Political parties and leaders: Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) led by President Bongo is only legal party

Electric power

67,000 kW capacity (1985); 215 million kWh produced (1985), 4,780 kWh per capita

213,000 kW capacity (1985); 220 million kWh produced (1985), 314 kWh per capita

12, 109,000 kW capacity (1985); 44.475 billion kWh produced (1985), 9,060 kWh per capita

87,246,000 kW capacity (1985); 332.016 billion kWh produced (1985), 6,026 kWh per capita

31,000 kW capacity (1985); 138 million kWh produced (1985), 1,625 kWh per capita

72,000 kW capacity (1985); 265 million kWh produced (1985), 1,515 kWh per capita

280,000 kW capacity (1985); 736 million kWh produced (1985), 744 kWh per capita

Ethnic divisions

homogeneous white population

50% Indian, 45% Fijian; 5% European, other Pacific Islanders, overseas Chinese, and others

Finn, Swede, Lapp, Gypsy, Tatar

Celtic and Latin with Teutonic, Slavic, North African, Indochinese, and Basque minorities

66% black or mulatto; 12% Caucasian; 12% East Indian, Chinese, Amerindian; 10% other

78% Polynesian, 12% Chinese, 6% local French, 4% metropolitan French

about 40 Bantu tribes, including 4 major tribal groupings (Fang, Eshira, Bapounou, Bateke); about 100,000 expatriate Africans and Europeans, including 35,000 French

Exports

$178.7 million (f.o.b., 1980); mostly fish and fish products

$236 million (f.o.b., 1984); 70% sugar; also copra

$13.5 billion (f.o.b., 1984); timber, paper and pulp, ships, machinery, clothing and footwear

$93.2 billion (f.o.b., 1984); principal items — machinery and transportation equipment, chemicals, foodstuffs, agricultural products, iron and steel products, textiles and clothing

$35.4 million (1981); shrimp, timber, rum, rosewood essence

$21 million (1977); principal products— coconut products (79%), mother-ofpearl (14%), vanilla (1971)

$2.0 billion (f.o.b., 1983); crude petroleum, wood and wood products, minerals (manganese, uranium concentrates, gold)

Fiscal year

calendar year Communications

calendar year Communications

calendar year Communications

calendar year Communications

calendar year Communications

Fishing

catch 329,900 metric tons (1983); exports, $162.3 million (1980)

catch 157, 1 00 metric tons (1983)

catch 784,000 metric tons (1983); exports (includes shellfish, etc.) $297 million, imports $967 million (1984)

catch 1,430 metric tons (1983 est.)

catch 52,638 metric tons (1982)

GDP

$369.3 million (1980), about $8,800 per capita

A$931.3 million (1980), US$6,400 per capita (1980)

$3.4 billion (1983), $3,690 per capita; 0.7% annual growth rate (1981)

GNP

$50. 1 billion (1984), $10,270 per capita; 54.7% private consumption, 24% gross fixed capital formation; 19.9% government consumption; 1.4% net exports of goods and services; 1984 growth rate 3.0% (1980 prices)

$120 million (1976), $1,940 per capita French Polynesia

Government leader

Ratu Sir Kamisese MARA, Prime Minister (since 1966 [as Chief Minister during preindependence days] )

Frangois MITTERRAND, President (since May 1981); Jacques CHIRAC, Prime Minister (since March 1986)

Bernard COURTOIS, Prefect of the Republic (since 1984)

Alain OHREL, High Commissioner and President of the Council of Government (since 1983), appointed by French Government; Gaston FLOSSE, Vice President of the Council of Government (since May 1982; highest elected official in the territory)

El Hadj Omar BONGO, President (since December 1967)

Government leaders

MARGRETHE II, Queen (since January 1972); Atli DAM, Lagmand, Prime Minister (since December 1984); Niels BENTSEN, Danish Governor (since 1981)

Dr. Mauno KOIVISTO, President (since January 1982); Kalevi SORSA, Prime Minister (since February 1982)

Highways

510 km total; 30 km paved, 80 km gravel, and 400 km unimproved earth

200 km

2,960 km total (1981); 390 km paved, 2,150 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized soil surface; 420 unimproved earth

about 103,000 km total, including 35,000 km paved (bituminous, concrete, bituminous-treated surface) and 38,000 km unpaved (stabilized gravel, gravel, earth); additional 30,000 km of private (state subsidized) roads

1,533,940 km total; 33,400 km national highway; 347,000 km departmental highway; 421,000 km community roads; 750,000 km rural roads; 5,209 km of controlled-access divided "autoroutes"; approx. 803,000 km paved

680 km total; 510 km paved, 170 km improved and unimproved earth

3,700 km

Imports

$222.1 million (c.i.f., 1980); machinery and transport equipment, petroleum and petroleum products, food products

$472 million (c.i.f., 1984); 24% manufactured goods, 20.0% machinery, 16.3% foodstuffs, 16% fuels

$12.4 billion (c.i.f., 1984); foodstuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile yarn and fabrics

$103.6 billion (c.i.f., 1984); principal items — crude petroleum, machinery and equipment, agricultural products, chemicals, iron and steel products

$245.9 million (1981); food (grains, processed meat), other consumer goods, producer goods, and petroleum

$419 million (1977); principal items — fuels, foodstuffs, equipment

$0.9 billion (c.i.f., 1983); mining, roadbuilding machinery, electrical equipment, transport vehicles, foodstuffs, textiles

Infant mortality rate

29/1,000(1983)

6.2/1,000 (1983)

9/1,000(1983)

117/1,000(1983)

Inland waterways

203 km; 122 km navigable by motorized craft and 200-metric-ton barges

6,675 km total (including Saimaa Canal); 3,700 km suitable for steamers

14,932 km; 6,969 km heavily traveled

460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and river and coastal steamers; 3,300 km possibly navigable by native craft

none

Labor force

17,585; largely engaged in fishing, manufacturing, transportation, and commerce Government

176,000(1979); 40% of total work force paid employees; remainder involved in subsistence agriculture; 43.4% agriculture, 15.6% industry

2.572 million; 23.3% mining and manufacturing; 25.8% services; 19.0% commerce; 11.4% agriculture, forestry, and fishing; 7.1% construction; 7.0% transportation and communications; 6.2% unemployed (1984 average)

23.8 million (1984); 61.2% services, 21.7% industry, 7.0% agriculture; 10.1% unemployed

23,265 (1980); services, government, and commerce 60.6%; industry 21.2%; agriculture 18.2%; 10% unemployment (1980)

120,000 salaried (1983); 65.0% agriculture, 30.0% industry and commerce, 2.5% services, 2.5% government

Land boundaries

2,534 km Water

2,888 km Water

1,183 km Water

2,422 km Water

Language

Faroese (derived from Old Norse), Danish

English (official); Fijian and Hindustani spoken among Indians

93.5% Finnish, 6.3% Swedish (both official); small Lappand Russian-speaking minorities

French (100% of population); rapidly declining regional dialects — Provencal, Breton, Germanic, Corsican, Catalan, Basque, Flemish

French

French (official), Fang, ivlyene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi

Legal system

based on Danish law; Home Rule Act enacted 1948

based on British system

civil law system based on Swedish law; constitution adopted 1919; Supreme Court may request legislation interpreting or modifying laws; legal education at Universities of Helsinki and Turku; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations

civil law system with indigenous concepts; new constitution adopted 1958, amended concerning election of President in 1962; judicial review of administrative but not legislative acts; legal education at over 25 schools of law

French legal system; highest court is Court of Appeals based in Martinique with jurisdiction over Martinique, Guadeloupe, and French Guiana

based on French; lower and higher courts French Polynesia (continued) Gabon

based on French civil law system and customary law; constitution adopted 1961; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court; legal education at Center of Higher and Legal Studies at Libreville; compulsory ICJ jurisdiction not accepted

Life expectancy

72

men 70.1, women 78.1

75

50

Limits of territorial waters

12 nm (200 nm exclusive economic zone)

Limits of territorial waters (claimed)

3 nm (200 nm fishing zone)

12 nm (200 nm exclusive economic zone); maritime limits measured from claimed "archipelagic baselines," which generally connect the outermost points of outer islands or drying reefs

4 nm; fishing 12 nm; Aland Islands, 3 nm

12 nm (200 nm exclusive economic zone)

12 nm (200 nm exclusive economic zone)

12 nm (200 nm exclusive economic zone)

Literacy

99%

80%

almost 100%

99%

73%

65%

Major industries

sugar refining, tourism, gold, lumber, small industries

include metal manufacturing and shipbuilding, forestry and wood processing (pulp, paper), copper refining, foodstuffs, textiles and clothing

steel, machinery and equipment, textiles and clothing, chemicals, automobiles, food processing, metallurgy, aircraft, electronics

construction, shrimp processing, forestry products, rum, gold mining

maintenance of French nuclear test base, tourism

petroleum production, sawmills, petroleum refinery, food and beverage processing; mining of increasing importance; major minerals — manganese, uranium, iron (not produced)

Major industry

fishing

Major trade partners

exports 21.3% Denmark, 13.4% UK, 12.4% FRG, 11.7% US (1980)

Australia, New Zealand, Japan, UK, Singapore, US

(1984) 36.5% EC (1 1.6% FRG; 9.9% UK), 21% USSR, 12.3% Sweden, 6.6% US

(1984) imports — 50.4% EC, 14.6% petroleum exporting countries, 10.3% other West European countries, 7.7% US, 2.6% Japan, 2.5% USSR, 2.5% other Communist countries; exports — 48.9% EC, 13.5% petroleum exporting countries, 11.3% other West European countries, 8. 1 % US, 2.1% USSR, 2% other Communist countries, 1.1% Japan

exports — 54% US, 17% Japan, 15% France, 5% Martinique; imports — 53% France, 15% Trinidad and Tobago, 10% US (1981)

imports — 59% France, 14% US; exports— 86% France

France, US, FRG,

Member of

Nordic Council Economy

ADB, Colombo Plan, Commonwealth, EC (associate), ESCAP, FAO, G-77, GATT(de facto), IBRD, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, ISO, ITU, SPF, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO Economy GDP.- $1.32 billion (1984), $1,850 per capita; annual growth rate, -3.6% (1984)

ADB, CEMA (special cooperation agreement), DAC, EC (free trade agreement), EFTA (associate), FAO, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, ICES, ICO, IDA, IDE — Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, IMF, IMO, INTERPOL, IPU, ITU, IWC— International Wheat Council, Nordic Council, OECD, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WSG Economy

ADB, Council of Europe, DAC, EC, EIB, ELDO, EMA, EMS, ESCAP, ESRO, FAO, GATT, IAEA, IATP, IBRD, ICAC, ICAO, ICES, ICO, IDA, IDE— InterAmerican Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, IHO, ILO, International Lead and Zinc Study Group, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOOC, IPU, IRC, ISO, ITC, ITU, IWC— International Whaling Commission, NATO (signatory), OAS (observer), OECD, South Pacific Commission, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WEU, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WSG, WTO Economy GDP. $490 billion (1984), $8,890 per capita; 64% private consumption, 19% investment (including government) 17% government consumption; 1984 real growth rate, 1.6%; average annual growth rate (1975-84), 2.1%

Af DB, African Wood Organization, Conference of East and Central African States, BDECA (Central African Development Bank), EAMA, EIB (associate), FAO, G-77, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICCO, ICO, IDA, IDE— Islamic Development Bank, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, IMO, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IPU, ITU, NAM, OAU, QIC, OPEC, UDEAC, UN, UNESCO, UPU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO Economy

Military budget

fiscal year ending 31 December 1984, $785 million; 5.6% of central government budget 300km English Channel Jti|*»* PARIS * See regional mip V Mediterranean ^» Sea Land 547,026 km2; four-fifths the size of Texas; 34% cultivated; 24% meadow and pasture; 27% forest; 15% waste, urban, or other

proposed for fiscal year ending 31 December 1984, $20 billion; about 18. 1 % of proposed central government budget North Atlantic Land 90,909 km2; slightly smaller than Maine; 90% forest; 10% waste, built on, inland water, and other, of which .05% is cultivated and pasture

Military manpower

males 15-49 included with Denmark South Pacific Ocean Vanua Levu f'Taveuni Viti Levu Ceva-i-Ra Set regional map X 200km Land 18,376 km2; the size of Massachusetts; consists of more than 300 islands and many more coral atolls and cays; the larger islands — Vanua Levu, Viti Levu, Taveuni, and Kandavu — are mountainous and volcanic in origin, with peaks rising over 1,210 meters; land ownership — 83.6% Fijians, 7.2% European, 6.4% government, 1.7% Indians, 1.1% other; about 30% of land area is suitable for farming Water

males 15-49, 187,000; 103,000 fit for military service; 7,000 reach military age (18) annually Set ref ionil map V HELSINSKI Land 337,1 13 km2; slightly smaller than Montana; 58% forest, 34% other, 8% arable

males 15-49, 1,329,000; 1,022,000 fit for military service; 35,000 reach military age (17) annually

males 15-49, 14,034,000; fit for military service 1 1,895,000; 431,000 reach military age (18) annually

males 15-49, 21,000; 15,000 fit for military service South Pacific Ocean "V* '" -.PAPEETE .... Je • •* . laSociete T'hl" lies Tubuai lie Marquises .lies Tuamotu Land About 4,000 km2; larger than Rhode Island Water

Monetary conversion rate

.833 Falkland Island pound=.833 pound sterling=US$l (December 1984) Communications

10.80 Danish kroner=US$l (November 1984 average)

.9022 Fiji dollar=US$l (30 November 1985)

5.42 Finnmarks (Fim)=US$l (30 December 1985)

7.67 French francs=US$l (17 December 1985)

8.66 French francs=US$l (September 1985)

127.05 Colonial Francs Pacifique(CFP)=$USl (February 1984) Communications

National holiday

Fiji Day, 10 October

Independence Day, 6 December

National Day, 14 July

National holidays

Renovation Day, 12 March; Independence Day, 17 August; major Islamic and Christian holidays

Nationality

noun — Faroese(sing., pi.); adjective— Faroese

noun — Fijian(s); adjective — Fijian

noun — Finn(s); adjective — Finnish

noun — Frenchman (men); adjective— French

noun — French Guianese (sing., pi.); adjective — French Guiana

noun — French Polynesian(s); adjective — French Polynesian

noun — Gabonese(sing., pi.); adjective — Gabonese

Natural resources

fish

timber, fish, gold, copper

forests, copper, zinc, iron, farmland

coal, iron ore, bauxite, fish, forests

bauxite, timber, gold (widely scattered), cinnabar, clay, low-grade iron ore

oil, manganese, uranium, gold, wood, iron ore

Official name

Faroe Islands

Fiji

Republic of Finland

French Republic

Department of French Guiana

Territory of French Polynesia

Gabonese Republic

Organized labor

about 50% of labor force organized into about 60 unions; unions organized along lines of work and ethnic origin Government

80% of labor force Government

approximately 20% of labor force Government

7% of labor force Government

there are 38,000 members of the national trade union, the Gabonese Trade Union Confederation (COSYGA) Government

Other political or pressure groups

Communist-controlled labor union (Confederation Generale du Travail) nearly 2.4 million members (claimed); Socialistleaning labor union (Confederation Francaise Democratique du Travail — CFDT) about 800,000 members est; independent labor union (Force Ouvriere) about 1,000,000 members est. ; independent white collar union (Confederation Generale des Cadres) 340,000 members (claimed); National Council of French Employers (Conseil National du Patronat Francais — CNPF or Patronat)

Pipelines

natural gas, 161 km

crude oil, 3,458 km; refined products, 4,344 km; natural gas, 24,746 km

Political parties

Alliance, primarily Fijian, headed by Ratu Mara; National Federation, primarily Indian, headed by Siddiq Koya; Western United Front, Fijian, Ratu Osea Gauidi; Fiji Labor Party (founded in mid1985), headed by Dr. Timoci Bavadra Fiji (continued) Finland

Political subdivisions

1 districts, 49 communes, 1 town

4 divisions

12 provinces, 377 communes, 84 towns

22 regions with 96 metropolitan departments

2 arrondissements, 19 communes each with a locally elected municipal council

48 communes

nine provinces subdivided into 36 prefectures

Population

46,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 0.7%

715,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 2.0%

4,93 1,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 0.5%

55,239,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 0.4%

88,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 4. 1 %

181,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 3.0%

1,017,000 (July 1986), average annual growth rate 2.8%

Ports

1 major (Port Stanley), 4 minor

2 major, 8 minor

1 major, 6 minor

1 1 major, 34 minor Finland (continued) France

8 major, 16 secondary

1 major (Cayenne), 7 minor

1 major (Papeete), 6 minor

Railroads

none

none

644 km 0.610meter narrow gauge; owned by Fiji Sugar Corp., Ltd.

6,071 km total; Finnish State Railways (VR) operate a total of 6,010 km 1.524-meter gauge, of which 480 km are multiple track and 1,257 km are electrified

French National Railways (SNCF) operates 34,678 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; 11,219 km electrified, 15,132 km double or multiple track; 2,138 km of various gauges (1.000-meter to 1.440meter), privately owned and operated

none

none

Religion

Evangelical Lutheran

Fijians are mainly Christian, Indians are Hindu with a Muslim minority

97% Evangelical Lutheran, 1.2% Greek Orthodox, 1.8% other

90% Roman Catholic, 2% Protestant, 1% Jewish, 1% Muslim (North African workers), 6% unaffiliated

predominantly Roman Catholic

mainly Christian; 55% Protestant, 32% Catholic Government

55-75% Christian, less than 1% Muslim, remainder animist

Shortages

fossil fuels; industrial raw materials, except wood and iron ore

crude oil, natural gas, textile fibers, most nonferrous ores, coking coal, fats and oils

Suffrage

universal, but not compulsory, over age 21

universal adult

universal, 18 years and over; not compulsory

universal over age 18; not compulsory

universal over age 18

universal adult

universal over age 18

Telecommunications

governmentoperated radiotelephone networks providing effective service to almost all points on both islands; approximately 590 telephones (est. 24.2 per 100 popl.); 1 AM station, 1 FM station, 1 Atlantic satellite station Defense Forces Defense is the responsibility of the United Kingdom Atlantic Ocean r> - \ ^Sudhuroy See regional m«p V _| Land 1,340 km2; slightly larger than Rhode Island; less than 5% arable, of which only a fraction is cultivated; archipelago consisting of 18 inhabited islands and a few uninhabited islets Water

good international communications; fair domestic facilities; 20,400 telephones (46.3 per 100 popl.); 1 AM, 3 FM stations; 3 coaxial submarine cables Defense Forces Defense is the responsibility of Denmark

modern local, interisland, and international (wire/radio integrated) public and special-purpose telephone, telegraph, and teleprinter facilities; regional radio center; important COMPAC cable link between US/Canada and New Zealand/Australia; 37,515 telephones (6.0 per 100 popl.); 7 AM, 2 FM , no TV stations; 1 ground satellite station Defense Forces

good telecom service from cable and radio-relay network; 2.78 million telephones (57 per 100popl.);6 AM, 99 FM, 193 TV stations; 3 submarine cables Defense Forces

highly developed system provides satisfactory telephone, telegraph, and radio and TV broadcast services; 33.0 million telephones (60 per 100 popl.); 38 AM, 591 FM, 9,300 TV stations; 23 submarine coaxial cables; 2 communication satellite ground stations with total of 9 antennas France (continued) French Guiana Defense Forces

fair openwire and radio-relay system with about 18,100 telephones (27.2 per 100 popl.); 3 AM, 6 FM, 9 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean satellite station Defense Forces Defense is the responsibility of France

17,302 telephones (12.9 per 100 popl.); 72,000 radio and 14,000 TV sets; 5 AM, 2 FM, 6 TV stations; 1 ground satellite station Defense Forces Defense is responsibility of France S« rffionil mip VII Land 267,667 km2; the size of Colorado; 75% forest, 15% savanna, 9% urban and waste, less than 1% cultivated

Type

self-governing province within the Kingdom of Denmark; 2 representatives in Danish parliament

independent parliamentary state within Commonwealth; Elizabeth II recognized as chief of state

republic

republic, with President having wide powers

overseas department and region of France; represented by one deputy in French National Assembly and one senator in French Senate

overseas territory of France

republic; one-party presidential regime since 1964

Voting strength

(January 1985) four-party coalition — 17 of 32 seats

(July 1982) House of Representatives— (Alliance Party 28 seats; National Federation Party/Western United Front coalition 24 seats

(1983 parliamentary election) 26% Social Democratic, 22.1% Conservative, 17.6% CenterLiberal, 14.0% People's Democratic League, 9.7% Rural, 4.9% Swedish Peoples, 3.0% Christian League, 1.5% Greens, 0.4% Constitutional People's, 0. 1 % League for Citizen Power

(1986 election) UDF/ RPR/CNIP, 44.9%; PS/MRG 31.6%; Communist, 9.8%; National Front, 9.7%; diverse left, 1.0%; extreme left, 1.5%; extreme right, 0.2%; other 1.2%

(1982 election) Tahoeraa Huiraatira, 13 seats; Ai'a Api, 3 seats; Here Ai'a, 6 seats; la Mana, 3 seats; Independents, 4 seats; Te E'a Api, 1 seat Economy