K

Imports: $42.8 million (1993)
commodities: food and beverages, tobacco, clothing, manufactures,
construction materials
partners: US, UK

External debt: $NA

Economic aid:
recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways: 0 km

Highways:
total: 121 km
paved: 24 km
unpaved: 97 km

Ports: Grand Turk, Providenciales

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 7
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 2 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 1,359 (1988 est.)

Telephone system: fair cable and radiotelephone services
domestic: NA
international: 2 submarine cables; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 7,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: television programs are available
from a cable network, and broadcasts from the Bahamas can be
received in the islands

Televisions: NA

Defense
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Defense note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

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@Tuvalu
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Map
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Location: 8 00 S, 178 00 E -- Oceania, island group consisting of
nine coral atolls in the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the
way from Hawaii to Australia

Flag
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Description: light blue with the flag of the UK in the upper
hoist-side quadrant; the outer half of the flag represents a map of
the country with nine yellow five-pointed stars symbolizing the nine
islands

Geography
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Location: Oceania, island group consisting of nine coral atolls in
the South Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to
Australia

Geographic coordinates: 8 00 S, 178 00 E

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total area: 26 sq km
land area: 26 sq km
comparative area: 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 24 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: none

Climate: tropical; moderated by easterly trade winds (March to
November); westerly gales and heavy rai