$7.4 million
from UNDP (1990)
_#_Currency: tughrik (plural--tughriks); 1 tughrik (Tug) = 100 mongos
_#_Exchange rates: tughriks (Tug) per US$1--7.1 (1991), 5.63 (1990),
3.00 (1989)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 1,750 km 1.524-meter broad gauge (1988)
_#_Highways: 46,700 km total; 1,000 km hard surface; 45,700 km other
surfaces (1988)
_#_Inland waterways: 397 km of principal routes (1988)
_#_Civil air: 25 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 81 total, 31 usable; 11 with permanent-surface
runways; fewer than 5 with runways over 3,659 m; fewer than 20 with
runways 2,440-3,659 m; 12 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: stations--12 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV (with 18 provincial
relays); relay of Soviet TV; 120,000 TVs; 186,000 radios;
at least 1 earth station
_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Mongolian People's Army (includes Border Guards),
Air Force
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 535,376; 349,548 fit for
military service; 25,275 reach military age (18) annually
_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
_%_
_@_Montserrat
(dependent territory of the UK)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 100 km2; land area: 100 km2
_#_Comparative area: about 0.6 times the size of Washington, DC
_#_Land boundaries: none
_#_Coastline: 40 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 3 nm
_#_Climate: tropical; little daily or seasonal temperature variation
_#_Terrain: volcanic islands, mostly mountainous, with small coastal
lowland
_#_Natural resources: negligible
_#_Land use: arable land 20%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
10%; forest and woodland 40%; other 30%
_#_Environment: subject to severe hurricanes from June to November
_#_Note: located 400 km southeast of Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea
_*_People
_#_Population: 12,504 (July 1991), growth rate 1.0% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 16 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 4 migrants/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 9 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 74 years male, 80 years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: 2.2 children born/woman (1991)
_#_Nationality: noun--Montserratian(s); adjective--Montserratian
_#_Ethnic divisions: mostly black with a few Europeans
_#_Religion: Ang
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