Currency:
1 Bahraini dinar (BD) = 1,000 fils
Exchange rates:
Bahraini dinars (BD) per US$1 - 0.3760 (fixed rate)
Fiscal year:
calendar year

@Bahrain, Communications

Highways:
total:
NA
paved:
bituminous 200 km
unpaved:
NA
Pipelines:
crude oil 56 km; petroleum products 16 km; natural gas 32 km
Ports:
Mina' Salman, Manama, Sitrah
Merchant marine:
6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 101,844 GRT/143,997 DWT, bulk 1,
cargo 4, container 1
Airports:
total:
3
usable:
3
with permanent-surface runways:
2
with runways over 3,659 m:
2
with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
0
with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
1
Telecommunications:
modern system; good domestic services; 98,000 telephones (1 for every
6 persons); excellent international connections; tropospheric scatter
to Qatar, UAE; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable
to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 1 Atlantic
Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT; broadcast stations
- 2 AM, 3 FM, 2 TV

@Bahrain, Defense Forces

Branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense, Police Force
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 198,414; fit for military service 109,431; reach
military age (15) annually 5,093 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $245 million, 6% of GDP (1993)

@Baker Island

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Affiliation:
(territory of the US)

@Baker Island, Geography

Location:
Oceania, Micronesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, just north of the
Equator, 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu, about halfway between Hawaii
and Australia
Map references:
Oceania
Area:
total area:
1.4 sq km
land area:
1.4 sq km
comparative area:
about 2.3 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
4.8 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone:
12 nm
continental shelf:
200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
territorial sea:
12 nm
International disputes:
none
mate:
equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun
rain:
low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef
ural resources:
guano (deposits worked until 1891)
Land use:
arable land:
0%
permanent crops:
0%
meadows and pastures:
0%
forest and woodland:
0%
other:
100%
Irrigated land:
0 sq km
Environment:
current issues:
lacks fresh water
natural