, fruits, vegetables, fish;
partners--NZ 54%, Australia 30%, US 8%, Fiji 5% (FY87)
_#_Imports: $59.9 million (c.i.f., FY90 est.);
commodities--food products, beverages and tobacco, fuels, machinery
and transport equipment, chemicals, building materials;
partners--NZ 39%, Australia 25%, Japan 9%, US 6%, EC 5% (FY87)
_#_External debt: $42.0 million (FY89)
_#_Industrial production: growth rate 15% (FY86); accounts for
11% of GDP
_#_Electricity: 6,000 kW capacity; 8 million kWh produced,
80 kWh per capita (1990)
_#_Industries: tourism, fishing
_#_Agriculture: dominated by coconut, copra, and banana production;
vanilla beans, cocoa, coffee, ginger, black pepper
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $16
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-88), $240 million
_#_Currency: pa'anga (plural--pa'anga); 1 pa'anga (T$) = 100 seniti
_#_Exchange rates: pa'anga (T$) per US$1--1.2832 (January 1991),
1.2809 (1990), 1.2637 (1989), 1.2799 (1988), 1.4282 (1987), 1.4960
(1986), 1.4319 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June
_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 198 km sealed road (Tongatapu); 74 km (Vavau); 94 km
unsealed roads usable only in dry weather
_#_Ports: Nukualofa, Neiafu, Pangai
_#_Merchant marine: 6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 35,857
GRT/480,726 DWT; includes 2 cargo, 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 container,
1 liquefied gas
_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 6 total, 6 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659;
1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: 3,529 telephones; 66,000 radios; no TV
sets; stations--1 AM, no FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth
station
_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Land Force, Maritime Division, Royal Tongan Marines,
Royal Tongan Guard, Police
_#_Manpower availability: NA
_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
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_@_Trinidad and Tobago
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 5,130 km2; land area: 5,130 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Delaware
_#_Land boundaries: none
_#_Coastline: 362 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: outer edge of continental margin or 200 nm;
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Climate: tropical; rainy season (June to December)
_#_Terrain: mostly plains with some hills and low
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