sm, cotton, salt, copra,
clothing, footwear, beverages

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 10% of GDP; cash crop--sugarcane;
subsistence crops--rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fishing potential not
fully exploited; most food imported

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-88), $10.7
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $57 million

_#_Currency: East Caribbean dollar (plural--dollars);
1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents

_#_Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.70 (fixed
rate since 1976)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 58 km 0.760-meter narrow gauge on Saint Kitts for
sugarcane

_#_Highways: 300 km total; 125 km paved, 125 km otherwise improved,
50 km unimproved earth

_#_Ports: Basseterre (Saint Kitts), Charlestown (Nevis)

_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft

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

_#_Telecommunications: good interisland VHF/UHF/SHF radio connections
and international link via Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Martin;
2,400 telephones; stations--2 AM, no FM, 4 TV

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Royal Saint Kitts and Nevis Police Force, Coast Guard

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 38,090; NA fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_@_Saint Lucia
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 620 km2; land area: 610 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 3.5 times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 158 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical, moderated by northeast trade winds;
dry season from January to April, rainy season from May to August

_#_Terrain: volcanic and mountainous with some broad, fertile valleys

_#_Natural resources: forests, sandy beaches, minerals (pumice),
mineral springs, geothermal potential

_#_Land use: arable land 8%; permanent crops 20%; meadows and
pastures 5%; forest and woodland 13%; other 54%; includes irrigated 2%

_#_Environment: subject to hurricanes and volcanic activity;
deforestation; soil erosion

_#_Note: located 700 km southeast of Puerto Rico

_*_People
_#_Population: 153,075 (July 1991), growth rate 2.2%