A (1987)

_#_Exports: $54.0 million (f.o.b., 1987);

commodities--shrimp, timber, rum, rosewood essence;

partners--France 31%, US 22%, Japan 10% (1987)

_#_Imports: $394.0 million (c.i.f., 1987);

commodities--food (grains, processed meat), other consumer goods,
producer goods, petroleum;

partners--France 62%, Trinidad and Tobago 9%, US 4%, FRG 3%
(1987)

_#_External debt: $1.2 billion (1988)

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 92,000 kW capacity; 185 million kWh produced,
1,890 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: construction, shrimp processing, forestry products,
rum, gold mining

_#_Agriculture: some vegetables for local consumption; rice, corn,
manioc, cocoa, bananas, sugar; livestock--cattle, pigs, poultry

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-87), $1.25 billion

_#_Currency: French franc (plural--francs); 1 French franc (F) = 100
centimes

_#_Exchange rates: French francs (F) per US$1--5.1307 (January 1991),
5.4453 (1990), 6.3801 (1989), 5.9569 (1988), 6.0107 (1987), 6.9261
(1986), 8.9852 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 680 km total; 510 km paved, 170 km improved and
unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: 460 km, navigable by small oceangoing vessels and
river and coastal steamers; 3,300 km possibly navigable by native craft

_#_Ports: Cayenne

_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 10 total, 10 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 1 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: fair open wire and radio relay system;
18,100 telephones; stations--5 AM, 7 FM, 9 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: French Forces, Gendarmerie

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49 28,650; 18,903 fit for military
service

_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of France
_%_
_@_French Polynesia
(overseas territory of France)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 3,941 km2; land area: 3,660 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than one-third the size of
Connecticut

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 2,525 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical, but moderate

_#_Terrain: mixture of rugged high islands and low islands with reefs

_#_N