PAC cable
link between US-Canada and New Zealand-Australia; 53,228 telephones;
stations--7 AM, 1 FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Fiji Military Force (FMF; Army, Navy, Police)

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 190,120; 104,861 fit for
military service; 7,879 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $25.8 million, 2.5% of GDP (1988)
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_@_Finland
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 337,030 km2; land area: 305,470 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Montana

_#_Land boundaries: 2,628 km total; Norway 729 km, Sweden 586 km,
USSR 1,313 km

_#_Coastline: 1,126 km excluding islands and coastal indentations

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 6 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Exclusive fishing zone: 12 nm;

Territorial sea: 4 nm

_#_Climate: cold temperate; potentially subarctic, but comparatively
mild because of moderating influence of the North Atlantic Current,
Baltic Sea, and more than 60,000 lakes

_#_Terrain: mostly low, flat to rolling plains interspersed with lakes
and low hills

_#_Natural resources: timber, copper, zinc, iron ore, silver

_#_Land use: arable land 8%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
NEGL%; forest and woodland 76%; other 16%; includes irrigated NEGL%

_#_Environment: permanently wet ground covers about 30% of land;
population concentrated on small southwestern coastal plain

_#_Note: long boundary with USSR; Helsinki is northernmost national
capital on European continent

_*_People
_#_Population: 4,991,131 (July 1991), growth rate 0.3% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 12 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

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

_#_Infant mortality rate: 6 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 71 years male, 80 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 1.7 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Finn(s); adjective--Finnish

_#_Ethnic divisions: Finn, Swede, Lapp, Gypsy, Tatar

_#_Religion: Evangelical Lutheran 89%, Greek Orthodox 1%,
none 9%, other 1%

_#_Language: Finnish 93.5%, Swedish (both official) 6.3%; small Lapp-
and Russian-speaking minorities

_#_Literacy: 100% (male NA%, female NA%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1980 est.)

_#_Labor force: 2,470,000; services