orn, vegetables

Exports: $22 million (1997)

Exports--commodities: bananas, cocoa, nutmeg, fruit and
vegetables, clothing, mace

Exports--partners: Caricom 32.3%, UK 20%, US 13%, Netherlands 8.8%
(1991)

Imports: $166.5 million (1997)

Imports--commodities: food 25%, manufactured goods 22%, machinery
20%, chemicals 10%, fuel 6% (1989)

Imports--partners: US 31.2%, Caricom 23.6%, UK 13.8%, Japan 7.1%
(1991)

Debt--external: $74 million (1997 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $8.3 million (1995)

Currency: 1 East Caribbean dollar (EC$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1--2.7000
(fixed rate since 1976)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 5,650 (1988 est.)

Telephone system: automatic, islandwide telephone system
domestic: interisland VHF and UHF radiotelephone links
international: new SHF radiotelephone links to Trinidad and Tobago
and Saint Vincent; VHF and UHF radio links to Trinidad

Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 80,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2 (1997)

Televisions: 30,000 (1993 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 1,040 km
paved: 638 km
unpaved: 402 km (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors: Grenville, Saint George's

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 3 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 1
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Royal Grenada Police Force (includes Special
Service Unit), Coast Guard

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $NA

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

Illicit drugs: small-scale cannabis cultivation; lesser
transshipment point for marijuana and cocaine to US

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Geography

Location: Caribbean, islands in the eastern Caribbean Sea,
southeast of Puerto Rico

Geographic coordinates: 16 15 N, 61 35 W

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area:
total: 1,780 sq km
land: 1,706 sq km
water: 74 sq km
note: Guadeloupe is an archipelago of nine inhabited islands,
including Basse-Terre, Grande-Terre, Marie-Galante, La Desirade,
Iles des Sai