fuels, lubricants, and related materials
partners: NA
External debt: $10.2 million (December 1994)
Economic aid: $NA
Currency: 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1 - 2.70
(fixed rate since 1976)
Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March
Transportation
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Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: 280 km
paved: 200 km
unpaved: 80 km
Ports: Plymouth
Merchant marine: none
Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1 (1995 est.)
Communications
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Telephones: 3,000
Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA
Radio broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 4, shortwave 0
Radios: 6,000 (1992 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 1
Televisions: 2,000 (1992 est.)
Defense
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Branches: Police Force
Defense note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
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@Morocco
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Map
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Location: 32 00 N, 5 00 W -- Northern Africa, bordering the North
Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and
Western Sahara
Flag
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Description: red with a green pentacle (five-pointed, linear star)
known as Solomon's seal in the center of the flag; green is the
traditional color of Islam
Geography
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Location: Northern Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean and
the Mediterranean Sea, between Algeria and Western Sahara
Geographic coordinates: 32 00 N, 5 00 W
Map references: Africa
Area:
total area: 446,550 sq km
land area: 446,300 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than California
Land boundaries:
total: 2,002 km
border countries: Algeria 1,559 km, Western Sahara 443 km
note: excludes the length of the boundary between the places of
sovereignty and Morocco
Coastline: 1,835 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
International disputes: claims and administers Western Sahara, but
sovereignty is unresolved and the UN is attempting to hold a
referendum on the issue; the UN-administered cease-fire has been in
effect since September 1991; Spain controls five places of
sovereignty (plazas de soberania) on and off the coast of Morocco -
the coastal enclaves of Ceuta and
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