try; large net
importer of food

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $1.7 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $1.5 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $9.5 billion;
Communist countries (1970-89), $44 million

Currency: 1 Jordanian dinar (JD) = 1,000 fils

Exchange rates: Jordanian dinars (JD) per US$1 - 0.6994 (January
1995), 0.5987 (1994), 0.6928 (1993), 0.6797 (1992), 0.6808 (1991),
0.6636 (1990)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Jordan:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 789 km
narrow gauge: 789 km 1.050-m gauge

Highways:
total: 7,500 km
paved: asphalt 5,500 km
unpaved: gravel, crushed stone 2,000 km

Pipelines: crude oil 209 km

Ports: Al'Aqabah

Merchant marine:
total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 61,678 GRT/113,080 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, oil tanker 1

Airports:
total: 17
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 9
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1

@Jordan:Communications

Telephone system: 81,500 telephones; adequate telephone system
local: NA microwave, cable, and radio links
intercity: NA
international: 2 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1
ARABSAT earth station; coaxial cable and microwave to Iraq, Saudi
Arabia, and Syria; microwave link to Lebanon is inactive; participant
in MEDARABTEL, a microwave radio relay network linking Syria, Jordan,
Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 7, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 8 and 1 TV receive-only satellite link
televisions: NA

@Jordan:Defense Forces

Branches: Jordanian Armed Forces (JAF; includes Royal Jordanian Land
Force, Royal Naval Force, and Royal Jordanian Air Force); Ministry of
the Interior's Public Security Force (falls under JAF only in wartime
or crisis situations)

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 981,004; males fit for military
service 699,891; males reach military age (18) annually 45,494 (1995
est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $564.2 million, 9.1%
of GDP (1995 est.)

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JUAN DE NOVA ISLAND

(possession of France)

@Juan De Nova Island:Geography

Location: Southern Africa, island in