s, mineral fuels, chemicals;

partners--UK

_#_External debt: $NA

_#_Industrial production: growth rate NA%

_#_Electricity: 50,000 kW standby capacity (1990); power supplied by
France

_#_Industries: tourism, banking and finance, dairy

_#_Agriculture: potatoes, cauliflowers, tomatoes; dairy and cattle
farming

_#_Economic aid: none

_#_Currency: Jersey pound (plural--pounds); 1 Jersey pound (5J) =
100 pence

_#_Exchange rates: Jersey pounds (5J) per US$1--0.5171 (January
1991), 0.5603 (1990), 0.6099 (1989), 0.5614 (1988), 0.6102 (1987), 0.6817
(1986), 0.7714 (1985); the Jersey pound is at par with the British pound

_#_Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March

_*_Communications
_#_Ports: Saint Helier, Gorey, Saint Aubin

_#_Airports: 1 with permanent-surface runway 1,220-2,439 m (Saint
Peter)

_#_Telecommunications: 63,700 telephones; stations--1 AM, no FM, 1
TV; 3 submarine cables

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK
_%_
_@_Johnston Atoll
(territory of the US)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 2.8 km2; land area: 2.8 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 4.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 10 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical, but generally dry; consistent northeast trade
winds with little seasonal temperature variation

_#_Terrain: mostly flat with a maximum elevation of 4 meters

_#_Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until about 1890)

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: some low-growing vegetation

_#_Note: strategic location 1,328 km west-southwest of Honolulu in
the North Pacific Ocean, about one-third of the way between Hawaii and
the Marshall Islands; Johnston Island and Sand Island are natural
islands; North Island (Akau) and East Island (Hikina) are manmade islands
formed from coral dredging; closed to the public; former nuclear weapons
test site; site of Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System
(JACADS)

_*_People
_#_Population: 1,325 (December 1990); all US government personnel and
contractors

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none (territory of the US)

_#_Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by th