)

Imports--commodities: rice and other foodstuffs, consumer goods;
petroleum products, cement, transport equipment

Imports--partners: France 59%, South Africa 15%, Kenya 6% (1996)

Debt--external: $219 million (1996 est.)

Economic aid--recipient: $43.3 million (1995)

Currency: 1 Comoran franc (CF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: Comoran francs (CF) per US$1--420.01 (December
1998), 442.46 (1998), 437.75 (1997), 383.66 (1996), 374.36 (1995),
416.40 (1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications

Telephones: 4,000 (1993 est.)

Telephone system: sparse system of microwave radio relay and HF
radiotelephone communication stations
domestic: HF radiotelephone communications and microwave radio relay
international: HF radiotelephone communications to Madagascar and
Reunion

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: 81,000 (1994)

Television broadcast stations: 0 (1998)

Televisions: 200 (1994

Transportation

Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 880 km
paved: 673 km
unpaved: 207 km (1996 est.)

Ports and harbors: Fomboni, Moroni, Moutsamoudou

Merchant marine: none

Airports: 4 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Comoran Security Force

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 132,969 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 79,224 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $3 million (1994 est.)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: claims French-administered Mayotte; the
islands of Anjouan (Nzwani) and Moheli (Mwali) have moved to secede
from Comoros

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Geography

Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola

Geographic coordinates: 0 00 N, 25 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total: 2,345,410 sq km
land: 2,267,600 sq km
water: 77,810 sq km

Area--comparative: slightly less than one-fourth the size of the US

Land boundaries:
total: 10,271 km
border countries: Angola 2,511 km, Burundi 233 km, Central African
Republic 1,577 km, Republic of the Congo 2,410 km, Rwanda 217 km,
Sudan 628 km, Uganda 765 km, Zam