manufactured
goods
partners: US 23%, Japan 19%, other 58%
External debt: $NA
Industrial production: growth rate NA%
Electricity:
capacity: 300,000 kW
production: 750 million kWh
consumption per capita: 4,797 kWh (1993)
Industries: US military, tourism, construction, transshipment
services, concrete products, printing and publishing, food processing,
textiles
Agriculture: relatively undeveloped with most food imported; fruits,
vegetables, eggs, pork, poultry, beef, copra
Economic aid: although Guam receives no foreign aid, it does receive
large transfer payments from the general revenues of the US Federal
Treasury into which Guamanians pay no income or excise taxes; under
the provisions of a special law of Congress, the Guamanian Treasury,
rather than the US Treasury, receives federal income taxes paid by
military and civilian Federal employees stationed in Guam
Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates: US currency is used
Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September
@Guam:Transportation
Railroads: 0 km
Highways:
total: 674 km (all-weather roads)
paved: NA
unpaved: NA
Ports: Apra Harbor
Merchant marine: none
Airports:
total: 5
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
@Guam:Communications
Telephone system: 26,317 telephones (1989)
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 2 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth stations
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 0
radios: NA
Television:
broadcast stations: 3
televisions: NA
@Guam:Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of the US
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GUATEMALA
@Guatemala:Geography
Location: Middle America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between
Honduras and Belize and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between El
Salvador and Mexico
Map references: Central America and the Caribbean
Area:
total area: 108,890 sq km
land area: 108,430 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Tennessee
Land boundaries: total 1,687 km, Belize 266 km, El Salvador 203 km,
Honduras 256 km, Mexico 962 km
Coastline: 400 km
Maritime claims:
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
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