n, shirts, soap, beer, fisheries,
shrimp processing

_#_Agriculture: dominant sector of economy, primary source of exports;
cash crops--cocoa (85%), coconuts, palm kernels, coffee; food
products--bananas, papaya, beans, poultry, fish; not self-sufficient in
food grain and meat

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $8
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-87), $59 million

_#_Currency: dobra (plural--dobras); 1 dobra (Db) = 100 centimos

_#_Exchange rates: dobras (Db) per US$1--122.48 (December 1988),
72.827 (1987), 36.993 (1986), 41.195 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Highways: 300 km (two-thirds are paved); roads on Principe are
mostly unpaved and in need of repair

_#_Ports: Sao Tome, Santo Antonio

_#_Civil air: 8 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways
1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: minimal system; 2,200 telephones; stations--1
AM, 2 FM, no TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, National Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 28,984; 15,287 fit for military
service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, 1.6% of GDP (1980)
_%_
_@_Saudi Arabia
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 2,149,690 km2; land area: 2,149,690 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than one-fourth the size of US

_#_Land boundaries: 4,410 km total; Iraq 488 km, Iraq-Saudi Arabia
Neutral Zone 198 km, Jordan 742 km, Kuwait 222 km, Oman 676 km, Qatar
40 km, UAE 586 km, Yemen 1,458 km

_#_Coastline: 2,510 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 18 nm;

Continental shelf: not specific;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: no defined boundaries with Yemen and UAE;
shares Neutral Zone with Iraq--in December 1981, Iraq and Saudi Arabia
signed a boundary agreement that divides the zone between them, but the
agreement must be ratified before it becomes effective; Kuwaiti
ownership of Qaruh and Umm al Maradim Islands is disputed by
Saudi Arabia

_#_Climate: harsh, dry desert with great extremes of temperature

_#_Terrain: mostly uninhabited, sandy desert

_#_Natural resources: crude oil, natural gas, iron ore, gold, copper

_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 39%; forest and woodland 1%; other 59%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: no pere