,838 DWT; includes 1 passenger-cargo, 2 bulk

_#_Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft, one on order

_#_Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: adequate intraisland and international radio
communications provided via Australian facilities; 1,600 telephones;
4,000 radios; stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean
INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: no regular armed forces; Directorate of the Nauru
Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, NA; NA fit for military service

_#_Defense expenditures: no formal defense structure
_%_
_@_Navassa Island
(territory of the US)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 5.2 km2; land area: 5.2 km2

_#_Comparative area: about nine times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 8 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: claimed by Haiti

_#_Climate: marine, tropical

_#_Terrain: raised coral and limestone plateau, flat to undulating;
ringed by vertical white cliffs (9 to 15 meters high)

_#_Natural resources: guano

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
10%; forest and woodland 0%; other 90%

_#_Environment: mostly exposed rock, but enough grassland to support
goat herds; dense stands of fig-like trees, scattered cactus

_#_Note: strategic location between Cuba, Haiti, and Jamaica in the
Caribbean Sea; 160 km south of the US Naval Base at Guantanamo, Cuba

_*_People
_#_Population: uninhabited; transient Haitian fishermen and others
camp on the island

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none (territory of the US)

_#_Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the US
Coast Guard

_*_Economy
_#_Overview: no economic activity

_*_Communications
_#_Ports: none; offshore anchorage only

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the US
_%_
_@_Nepal
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 140,800 km2; land area: 136,800 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Arkansas

_#_Land boundaries: 2,926 km total; China 1,236 km, India 1,690 km

_#_Coastline: none--landlocked

_#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked

_#_Climate: varies from cool summers and severe winters in north to
subtropical summers and mild winter in south