orts--commodities: copra

Exports--partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ

Imports: $4.4 million (c.i.f., 1989)

Imports--commodities: food, animals, mineral fuels, machinery,
manufactured goods

Imports--partners: Fiji, Australia, NZ

Debt--external: $NA

Economic aid--recipient: $7.9 million (1995); note?substantial
annual support from an international trust fund

Currency: 1 Tuvaluan dollar ($T) or 1 Australian dollar ($A) =
100 cents

Exchange rates: Tuvaluan dollars ($T) or Australian dollars ($A)
per US$1--1.5853 (January 1999), 1.5888 (1998), 1.3439 (1997), 1.2773
(1996), 1.3486 (1995), 1.3667 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 130 (1983 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands
international: NA

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

Radios: 4,000 (1993 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 0 (1997)

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 8 km (1996 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Ports and harbors: Funafuti, Nukufetau

Merchant marine:
total: 10 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 44,371 GRT/70,137 DWT
ships by type: cargo 6, chemical tanker 2, oil tanker 1,
passenger-cargo 1 (1998 est.)

Airports: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: no regular military forces; Police Force
(consists of 56 full- and part-time personnel), Police Force
(includes Maritime Surveillance Unit for search and rescue missions
and surveillance operations)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $NA

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: none

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Geography

Location: Eastern Africa, west of Kenya

Geographic coordinates: 1 00 N, 32 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total: 236,040 sq km
land: 199,710 sq km
water: 36,330 sq km

Area--comparative: slightly smaller than Oregon

Land boundaries:
total: 2,698 km
border countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo 765 km, Kenya 933
km, Rwanda 169 km, Sudan 435 km, Tanzania 396 km

Coastline: 0 km (landlocked)

Maritime claims: none (landlocked)

Climate: tropical; generally rainy with two dry seasons (December