A
commodities: consumer goods
partners: principally Australia

External debt: $NA

Economic aid: none

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

Exchange rates: Australian dollars ($A) per US$1 - 1.3477 (January
1996),1.3486 (1995), 1.3667 (1994), 1.4704, (1993), 1.3600 (1992),
1.2836 (1991)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

Transportation
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Railways: 24 km to serve phosphate mines

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

Ports: Flying Fish Cove

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: NA

Telephone system:
domestic: NA
international: NA

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

Radios: 500 (1992)

Television broadcast stations: 1

Televisions: 350 (1992)

Defense
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Defense note: defense is the responsibility of Australia

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@Clipperton Island
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(possession of France)

Map
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Location: 10 17 N, 109 13 W -- Middle America, atoll in the North
Pacific Ocean, 1,120 km southwest of Mexico

Flag
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Description: the flag of France is used

Geography
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Location: Middle America, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, 1,120
km southwest of Mexico

Geographic coordinates: 10 17 N, 109 13 W

Map references: World

Area:
total area: 7 sq km
land area: 7 sq km
comparative area: about 12 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 11.1 km

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

International disputes: claimed by Mexico

Climate: tropical, humid, average temperature 20-32 degrees C,
rains May-October

Terrain: coral atoll
lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m
highest point: Rocher Clipperton 21 m

Natural resources: none

Land use:
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
meadows and pastures: 0%
forest and woodland: 0%
other: 100% (all coral)

Irrigated land: 0 sq km

Environment:
current issues: NA
natural hazards: subject to tornadoes
international agreements: NA

Geographic note: reef about 8 km in circumference

People
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Population: uninhabited

Government
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Name of country:
conventional long form: no