ern (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $4.8 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $589 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $295 million

_#_Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc
(plural--francs); 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF)
per US$1--256.54 (January 1991), 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85
(1988), 300.54 (1987), 346.30 (1986), 449.26 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 1,034 km 1.000-meter gauge; all single track except
70 km double track Dakar to Thies

_#_Highways: 14,000 km total; 3,770 km paved, 10,230 km laterite or
improved earth

_#_Inland waterways: 900 km total; 785 km on the Senegal, 115 km
on the Saloum

_#_Ports: Dakar, Kaolack

_#_Merchant marine: 3 ships (1,000 GRT and over) totaling 9,263
GRT/15,167 DWT; includes 2 cargo, 1 bulk

_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 25 total, 20 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
15 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: above-average urban system, using radio relay
and cable; 40,200 telephones; stations--8 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 3 submarine
cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary Gendarmerie;
Surete Nationale

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,749,540; 913,806 fit for
military service; 91,607 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $100 million, 2% of GDP (1989 est.)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 455 km2; land area: 455 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than 2.5 times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 491 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: edge of continental margin or 200 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: claims Tromelin Island

_#_Climate: tropical marine; humid; cooler season during southeast
monsoon (late May to September); warmer season during northwest monsoon
(March to May)

_#_Terrain: Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky,
hilly; others are coral, flat, elevated reefs

_#_Natural resources: fish, copra, cinnamon trees

_#_Land use: arable land 4%; permanent crops 18%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland