ountries 16% (1995)

Imports: $292.4 million (1997)

Imports--commodities: food 23%, manufactured goods 21%, machinery
and transportation equipment 19%, chemicals, fuels

Imports--partners: US 36%, Caricom countries 22%, UK 11%, Japan
5%, Canada 4% (1995)

Debt--external: $159 million (1997)

Economic aid--recipient: $51.8 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: 1 April--31 March

Communications

Telephones: 26,000 (1992 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: system is automatically switched
international: direct microwave radio relay link with Martinique and
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; tropospheric scatter to Barbados;
international calls beyond these countries are carried by Intelsat
from Martinique

Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: 104,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (of which two are commercial
(1997)

Televisions: 26,000 (1992 est.)

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 1,210 km
paved: 63 km
unpaved: 1,147 km (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors: Castries, Vieux Fort

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 2 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

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

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $5 million (1991); note?for
police force

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 2% (1991)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

Illicit drugs: transit point for South American drugs destined
for the US and Europe

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@Saint Pierre and Miquelon
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Geography

Location: Northern North America, islands in the North Atlantic
Ocean, south of Newfoundland (Canada)

Geographic coordinates: 46 50 N, 56 20 W

Map references: North America

Area:
total: 242 sq km
land: 242 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the
Miquelon groups

Area--comparative: 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 120 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territor