Electricity:
capacity: 16,000 kW
production: 22 million kWh
consumption per capita: 1,540 kWh (1990)

Agriculture: coconuts, copra, cassava (tapioca), sweet potatoes

Exports: $600,000 (f.o.b., 1989)
commodities: trochus (type of shellfish), tuna, copra, handicrafts
partners: US, Japan

Imports: $24.6 million (c.i.f., 1989)
commodities: NA
partners: US

External debt: about $100 million (1989)

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA
note: the compact of "free association" with the US, entered into
after the end of the UN trusteeship on 1 October 1994, provides
Palau with $500 million in US aid over 15 years in return for
furnishing military facilities

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 61 km
paved: 36 km
unpaved: 25 km

Ports: Koror

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 3
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 2 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 1,500 (1988 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

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

Radios: 9,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2

Televisions: 1,600 (1993 est.)

Defense
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Branches: NA

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

Defense note: defense is the responsibility of the US

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@Palmyra Atoll
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(territory of the US)

Map
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Location: 5 52 N, 162 06 W -- Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific
Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to American Samoa

Flag
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Description: the flag of the US is used

Geography
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Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about
one-half of the way from Hawaii to American Samoa

Geographic coordinates: 5 52 N, 162 06 W

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total area: 11.9 sq km
land area: 11.9 sq km
comparative area: about 20 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 14.5 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: none

Climate: equatorial, hot, an