es; sheep; fish
Exports: $363.4 million (f.o.b., 1995)
Exports--commodities: fish and fish products 95%
Exports--partners: Denmark 89%, Japan 5%, UK 5%
Imports: $421 million (c.i.f., 1995)
Imports--commodities: machinery and transport equipment 25%,
manufactured goods 18%, food and live animals 11%, petroleum
products 6%
Imports--partners: Denmark 7.5%, Iceland 3.8%, Japan 3.3%, Norway
3.1%, US 2.4%, Germany 2.4%, Sweden 1.8%
Debt--external: $243 million (1995)
Economic aid--recipient: $427 million (annual subsidy from
Denmark) (1995)
Currency: 1 Danish krone (DKr) = 100 oere
Exchange rates: Danish kroner (DKr) per US$1--6.401 (January
1999), 6.701 (1998), 6.604 (1997), 5.799 (1996), 5.602 (1995), 6.361
(1994)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Communications
Telephones: 19,600 (1995 est.)
Telephone system: adequate domestic and international service
provided by cables and microwave radio relay; totally digitalized in
1995
domestic: microwave radio relay
international: 2 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth station--1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations: 1 publicly-owned station and some local
radio and TV stations
Radios: 23,000 (1991 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 1 publicly-owned station and some
local low-power stations; in addition, there are three AFRTS (US Air
Force) stations which broadcast in the NTSC system (1997)
Televisions: 12,000 (1991 est.)
Transportation
Railways: 0 km
Highways:
total: 150 km
paved: 60 km
unpaved: 90 km
Ports and harbors: Kangerluarsoruseq, Kangerlussuaq, Nanortalik,
Narsarsuaq, Nuuk (Godthab), Sisimiut
Merchant marine:
total: 1 passenger (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,211 GRT/162 DWT
(1998 est.)
Airports: 13 (1998 est.)
Airports--with paved runways:
total: 9
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 4 (1998 est.)
Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)
Military
Military--note: defense is the responsibility of Denmark
Transnational Issues
Disputes--international: none
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Geography
Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and
Atlantic Ocean, north of Trinid
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