:
Danish kroner per US dollar - 5.9911 (2004), 6.5877 (2003), 7.8947
(2002), 8.3228 (2001), 8.0831 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications Faroe Islands

Telephones - main lines in use:
23,000 (2002)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
30,700 (2002)

Telephone system:
general assessment: good international communications; good
domestic facilities
domestic: digitalization was completed in 1998; both NMT (analog)
and GSM (digital) mobile telephone systems are installed
international: country code - 298; satellite earth stations - 1
Orion; 1 fiber-optic submarine cable to the Shetland Islands,
linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark and Iceland; fiber-optic
submarine cable connection to Canada-Europe cable

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Radios:
26,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
3 (plus 43 low-power repeaters) (September 1995)

Televisions:
15,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.fo

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
2 (2000)

Internet users:
25,000 (2002)

Transportation Faroe Islands

Highways:
total: 463 km
paved: 454 km
unpaved: 9 km (1999)

Ports and harbors:
Torshavn

Merchant marine:
total: 14 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 24,051 GRT/11,998 DWT
by type: cargo 6, container 1, passenger/cargo 5, petroleum tanker 2
foreign-owned: 8 (Denmark 2, Germany 1, Iceland 2, Norway 2, United
Kingdom 1) (2005)

Airports:
1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Military Faroe Islands

Military branches:
no regular military forces

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$NA

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
NA

Military - note:
defense is the responsibility of Denmark

Transnational Issues Faroe Islands

Disputes - international:
because anticipated offshore hydrocarbon resources have not been
realized, earlier Faroese proposals for full independence have been
deferred; Iceland disputes the Faroe Islands' fisheries median line
boundary; Iceland, the UK, and Ireland dispute Denmark's claim that
the Faroe Islands' continental shelf extends beyond 200 nm

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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@Fiji

Introduction Fiji

Background:
Fiji became independent in 1970, after nearly a century as a