ceramics

Imports: trade data are included with the statistics for Italy;
commodities: wide variety of consumer manufactures, food

External debt: $NA

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Italian lire (Lit) = 100 centesimi; note - also mints
its own coins

Exchange rates: Italian lire (Lit) per US$1 - 1,583.8 (January
1996), 1,629.2 (1995), 1,612.4 (1994), 1,573.7 (1993), 1,232.4
(1992), 1,240.6 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km; note - there is a 1.5 km cable railway connecting
the city of San Marino to Borgo Maggiore

Highways:
total: 220 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Ports: none

Airports: none

Communications
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Telephones: 22,300 (1992 est.)

Telephone system:
domestic: automatic telephone system completely integrated into
Italian system
international: microwave radio relay and cable connections to
Italian network; no satellite earth stations

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA (1 private
radio broadcast station)

Radios: 12,535 (1991 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1991 est.)
note: receives broadcasts from Italy

Televisions: 7,500 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Voluntary Military Force, Police Force

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: NA
males fit for military service: NA

Defense expenditures: $3.7 million (1% of GDP) (1992 est.)

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@Sao Tome and Principe
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Map
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Location: 1 00 N, 7 00 E -- Western Africa, island in the Atlantic
Ocean, straddling the Equator, west of Gabon

Flag
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Description: three horizontal bands of green (top), yellow (double
width), and green with two black five-pointed stars placed side by
side in the center of the yellow band and a red isosceles triangle
based on the hoist side; uses the popular pan-African colors of
Ethiopia

Geography
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Location: Western Africa, island in the Atlantic Ocean, straddling
the Equator, west of Gabon

Geographic coordinates: 1 00 N, 7 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total area: 960 sq km
land area: 960 sq km
comparative area: more than five times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 209 km

Maritime claims: measured from claimed archipelagic b