; crawfishing on Tristan da Cunha

Exports: $27,400 (f.o.b., FY92/93)
commodities: fish (frozen and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), handicrafts
partners: South Africa, UK

Imports: $9.8 million (c.i.f., FY92/93)
commodities: food, beverages, tobacco, fuel oils, animal feed,
building materials, motor vehicles and parts, machinery and parts
partners: UK, South Africa

External debt: $NA

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Saint Helenian pound (LS) = 100 pence

Exchange rates: Saint Helenian pounds (LS) per US$1 - 0.6535
(January 1996), 0.6335 (1995), 0.6529 (1994), 0.6658 (1993), 0.5664
(1992), 0.5652 (1991); note - the Saint Helenian pound is at par
with the British pound

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: NA km (mainland 118 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA
km)
paved: 180.7 km (mainland 98 km, Ascension 80 km, Tristan da Cunha
2.70 km)
unpaved: NA km (mainland 20 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA
km)

Ports: Georgetown, Jamestown

Merchant marine: none

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

Communications
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Telephones: 550

Telephone system:
domestic: automatic network; HF radiotelephone to Ascension, then
into worldwide submarine cable and satellite networks
international: major coaxial submarine cable relay point between
South Africa, Portugal, and UK at Ascension; satellite earth
stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

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

Radios: 2,500 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 0

Televisions: NA

Defense
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Defense note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

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@Saint Kitts and Nevis
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Map
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Location: 17 20 N, 62 45 W -- Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean
Sea, about one-third of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and
Tobago

Flag
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Description: divided diagonally from the lower hoist side by a
broad black band bearing two white five-pointed stars; the black
band is edged in yellow; the upper triangle is green, the lower
triangle is red

Geography
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Location: Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean Sea, about one-third
of the way from Puerto Rico to Trinidad and Tobag