ectricity: 486,000 kW capacity; 1,280 million kWh produced,
930 kWh per capita (1989)

_#_Industries: meatpacking, fish processing, dairy products, mining
(copper, lead, zinc, diamond, uranium)

_#_Agriculture: mostly subsistence farming; livestock raising major
source of cash income; crops--millet, sorghum, peanuts; fish catch
potential of over 1 million metric tons not being fulfilled, 1987 catch
reaching only 520,000 metric tons; not self-sufficient in food

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-87), $47.2 million

_#_Currency: South African rand (plural--rand);
1 South African rand (R) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: South African rand (R) per US$1--2.625 (January
1991), 2.5863 (1990), 2.6166 (1989), 2.2611 (1988), 2.0350 (1987), 2.2685
(1986), 2.1911 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 2,341 km 1.067-meter gauge, single track

_#_Highways: 54,500 km; 4,079 km paved, 2,540 km gravel, 47,881 km
earth roads and tracks

_#_Ports: Luderitz; primary maritime outlet is Walvis Bay (South
Africa)

_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 143 total, 123 usable; 21 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 4 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 67 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: good urban, fair rural services; radio relay
connects major towns, wires extend to other population centers; 62,800
telephones; stations--2 AM, 40 FM, 3 TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: National Defense Force (Army), Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 309,978; 183,730 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, 4.9% of GNP (1986)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 21 km2; land area: 21 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 30 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; monsoonal; rainy season (November to February)

_#_Terrain: sandy beach rises to fertile ring around raised coral reefs
with phosphate plateau in center

_#_Natural resources: phosphates

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: only 53 km south of Equator

_#_Note: Nauru is one of the three great phosphate rock islands in
the