toes; fishing

Exports: $75.3 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: fish, clothing
partners: Sri Lanka, US, Germany, Singapore, UK

Imports: $195.1 million (f.o.b., 1994 est.)
commodities: consumer goods, intermediate and capital goods,
petroleum products
partners: Singapore, India, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, Japan, Thailand

External debt: $137.5 million (1994 est.)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 rufiyaa (Rf) = 100 laari

Exchange rates: rufiyaa (Rf) per US$1 - 11.770 (January 1996),
11.770 (1995), 11.586 (1994), 10.957 (1993), 10.569 (1992), 10.253
(1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km; note - Male has 9.6 km of coral highways within the
city (1988 est.)

Ports: Gan, Male

Merchant marine:
total: 20 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 73,284 GRT/113,669 DWT
ships by type: cargo 17, container 2, oil tanker 1 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 2
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 8,523 (1992 est.)

Telephone system: minimal domestic and international facilities
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: 28,284 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1

Televisions: 7,309 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: National Security Service (paramilitary police force)

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 59,179
males fit for military service: 33,016 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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@Mali
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Map
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Location: 17 00 N, 4 00 W -- Western Africa, southwest of Algeria

Flag
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Description: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side),
yellow, and red; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia

Geography
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Location: Western Africa, southwest of Algeria

Geographic coordinates: 17 00 N, 4 00 W

Map references: Africa

Area:
total area: 1.24 million sq km
land area: 1.22 million sq km
comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Texas

Land boundaries:
total: 7,243 km
border countries: Algeria 1,376 km, Burkina Faso 1,000 km, Guinea
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