ed,
1,390 kWh per capita (1990)

_#_Industries: tourism, pearls, agricultural processing, handicrafts

_#_Agriculture: coconut and vanilla plantations; vegetables and fruit;
poultry, beef, dairy products

_#_Economic aid: Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral
commitments (1970-88), $3.95 billion

_#_Currency: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique franc (plural--francs);
1 CFP franc (CFPF) = 100 centimes

_#_Exchange rates: Comptoirs Francais du Pacifique francs (CFPF) per
US$1--93.28 (January 1991), 99.00 (1990), 115.99 (1989), 108.30 (1988),
109.27 (1987), 125.92 (1986), 163.35 (1985); note--linked at the rate of
18.18 to the French franc

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 600 km (1982)

_#_Ports: Papeete, Bora-bora

_#_Merchant marine: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,128
GRT/6,710 DWT; includes 1 passenger-cargo, 1 cargo, 1 refrigerated cargo;
note--a captive subset of the French register

_#_Civil air: about 6 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 43 total, 41 usable; 23 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 12 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: 33,200 telephones; 84,000 radio receivers;
26,400 TV sets; stations--5 AM, 2 FM, 6 TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT
earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 50,844; NA fit for military
service

_#_Note: defense is responsibility of France
_%_
_@_French Southern and Antarctic Lands
(overseas territory of France)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 7,781 km2; land area: 7,781 km2; includes Ile
Amsterdam, Ile Saint-Paul, Iles Kerguelen, and Iles Crozet;
excludes Terre Adelie claim of about 500,000 km2 in Antarctica
that is not recognized by the US

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Delaware

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 1,232 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm (Iles Kerguelen only);

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: Terre Adelie claim in Antarctica is not recognized by
the US

_#_Climate: antarctic

_#_Terrain: volcanic

_#_Natural resources: fish, crayfish

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: Ile Amsterdam and Ile Saint-Paul are extinct
volcanoes

_#_Note: located in the southern Indian Ocean about equidi