rated cargo,
6 container, 6 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 7 multifunction large-load
carrier, 1 chemical tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 2 bulk; note--all but a few
are foreign owned, mostly in the Netherlands

_#_Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 7 total, 7 usable; 7 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: generally adequate facilities; extensive
interisland radio relay links; stations--9 AM, 4 FM, 1 TV; 2 submarine
cables; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Royal Netherlands Navy, Marine Corps, Royal
Netherlands Air Force, National Guard, Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49 49,249; 27,803 fit for military
service; 1,634 reach military age (20) annually

_#_Note: defense is responsibility of the Netherlands
_%_
_@_New Caledonia
(overseas territory of France)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 19,060 km2; land area: 18,760 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than New Jersey

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 2,254 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; modified by southeast trade winds; hot, humid

_#_Terrain: coastal plains with interior mountains

_#_Natural resources: nickel, chrome, iron, cobalt, manganese, silver,
gold, lead, copper

_#_Land use: arable land NEGL%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 14%; forest and woodland 51%; other 35%

_#_Environment: typhoons most frequent from November to March

_#_Note: located 1,750 km east of Australia in the South Pacific
Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: 171,559 (July 1991), growth rate 1.9% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 23 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 1 migrant/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 17 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 69 years male, 76 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 2.8 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--New Caledonian(s); adjective--New Caledonian

_#_Ethnic divisions: Melanesian 42.5%, European 37.1%, Wallisian 8.4%,
Polynesian 3.8%, Indonesian 3.6%, Vietnamese 1.6%, other 3.0%

_#_Religion: Roman Catholic 60%, Protestant 30%, other 10%

_#_Language: French; 28 Melanesian-Polynesia