1 Barbadian dollar (Bds$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates:
Barbadian dollars (Bds$) per US$1 - 2.0113 (fixed rate)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March

@Barbados, Communications

Highways:
total:
1,570 km
paved:
1,475 km
unpaved:
gravel, earth 95 km
Ports:
Bridgetown
Merchant marine:
2 oil tankers (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 44,466 GRT/76,219 DWT
Airports:
total:
1
usable:
1
with permanent-surface runways:
1
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
1
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
0
Telecommunications:
island wide automatic telephone system with 89,000 telephones;
tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad and Saint Lucia; broadcast
stations - 3 AM, 2 FM, 2 (1 is pay) TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth station

@Barbados, Defense Forces

Branches:
Royal Barbados Defense Force, including the Ground Forces and Coast
Guard, Royal Barbados Police Force
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 70,751; fit for military service 49,330
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $10 million, 0.7% of GDP (1989)

@Bassas da India

Header
Affiliation:
(possession of France)

@Bassas da India, Geography

Location:
Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about halfway
between Madagascar and Mozambique
Map references:
Africa
Area:
total area:
NA km2
land area:
NA km2
comparative area:
NA
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
35.2 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
24 nm
continental shelf:
200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
territorial sea:
12 nm
International disputes:
claimed by Madagascar
Climate:
tropical
Terrain:
a volcanic rock 2.4 meters high
Natural resources:
none
Land use:
arable land:
0%
permanent crops:
0%
meadows and pastures:
0%
forest and woodland:
0%
other:
100% (all rock)
Irrigated land:
0 sq km
Environment:
current issues:
NA
natural hazards:
surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones
international agreements:
NA
Note:
navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide

@Bassas da India, People

Population:
uninhabited

@Bassas da India, Government

Names:
conventional long form:
none
conventional short form:
Bassas da India
Digraph:
BS
Type:
French possession administered by a Commissioner of the Republic,
resident in Reunion
Capital:
none;