rdean escudo (CVEsc) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: Cape Verdean escudos (CVEsc) per US$1 - 77.860
(December 1995), 76.853 (1995), 81.891 (1994), 80.427 (1993), 68.018
(1992), 71.408 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 1,100 km
paved: 680 km
unpaved: 420 km (1992 est.)

Ports: Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal

Merchant marine: cargo 3, chemical tanker 1 (1995 est.)
total: 4 (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,632 GRT/8,872 DWT

Airports:
total: 6
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 1,740 (1987 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: interisland microwave radio relay system
international: 2 coaxial submarine cables; HF radiotelephone to
Senegal and Guinea-Bissau; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat
(Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 6, shortwave 0

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1987 est.)

Televisions: 7,000 (1991 est.)

Defense
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Branches: People's Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARP; includes Army
and Navy), Security Service

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 84,003
males fit for military service: 48,885 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $3.4 million, NA%
of GDP (1994)

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@Cayman Islands
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(dependent territory of the UK)

Map
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Location: 19 30 N, 80 30 W -- Caribbean, island group in Caribbean
Sea, nearly one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras

Flag
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Description: blue, with the flag of the UK in the upper hoist-side
quadrant and the Caymanian coat of arms on a white disk centered on
the outer half of the flag; the coat of arms includes a pineapple
and turtle above a shield with three stars (representing the three
islands) and a scroll at the bottom bearing the motto HE HATH
FOUNDED IT UPON THE SEAS

Geography
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Location: Caribbean, island group in Caribbean Sea, nearly
one-half of the way from Cuba to Honduras

Geographic coordinates: 19 30 N, 80 30 W

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area:
total area: 260 sq km
land area: 260 sq km
comparative area: 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 160 km