ity: 5,773,000 kW capacity; 15,400 million kWh produced,
6,830 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: petroleum, fishing, petrochemicals, construction
materials, some boat building, handicrafts, pearling

_#_Agriculture: accounts for 2% of GNP and 5% of labor force; cash
crop--dates; food products--vegetables, watermelons, poultry, eggs,
dairy, fish; only 25% self-sufficient in food

_#_Economic aid: donor--pledged $9.1 billion in bilateral aid to less
developed countries (1979-89)

_#_Currency: Emirian dirham (plural--dirhams);
1 Emirian dirham (Dh) = 100 fils

_#_Exchange rates: Emirian dirhams (Dh) per US$1--3.6710 (fixed rate)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 2,000 km total; 1,800 km bituminous, 200 km gravel and
graded earth

_#_Pipelines: 830 km crude oil; 870 km natural gas, including natural
gas liquids

_#_Ports: Al Fujayrah, Khawr Fakkan, Mina Jabal Ali,
Mina Khalid, Mina Rashid, Mina Saqr,
Mina Zayid

_#_Merchant marine: 57 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 925,424
GRT/1,543,716 DWT; includes 22 cargo, 8 container, 2 roll-on/roll-off
cargo, 20 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 5 bulk

_#_Civil air: 8 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 38 total, 35 usable; 20 with permanent-surface runways;
7 with runways over 3,659 m; 5 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 5 with runways
1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: adequate system of radio relay and coaxial
cable; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubayy; 386,600 telephones;
stations--8 AM, 3 FM, 12 TV; satellite communications ground
stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1
ARABSAT; submarine cables to Qatar, Bahrain, India, and Pakistan;
tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; radio relay to Saudi Arabia

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Federal Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 940,130; 516,218 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $1.59 billion, 6.8% of GDP (1988)
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_@_United Kingdom
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 244,820 km2; land area: 241,590 km2; includes Rockall
and Shetland Islands

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oregon

_#_Land boundary: Ireland 360 km

_#_Coastline: 12,429 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: as defined in continental shelf orders or in
accordance with agreed upon boundaries;

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

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