Exports: $NA
commodities: tweeds, herring, processed shellfish, beef, lamb
partners: UK

Imports: $NA
commodities: timber, fertilizers, fish
partners: UK

External debt: $NA

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 61,000 kW
production: 190 million kWh
consumption per capita: 2,965 kWh (1992)

Industries: financial services, light manufacturing, tourism

Agriculture: cereals and vegetables; cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry

Economic aid: $NA

Currency: 1 Manx pound (#M) = 100 pence

Exchange rates: Manx pounds (#M) per US$1 - 0.6350 (January 1995),
0.6529 (1994), 0.6658 (1993), 0.5664 (1992), 0.5652 (1991), 0.5603
(1990); the Manx pound is at par with the British pound

Fiscal year: 1 April - 31 March

@Man, Isle Of:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 60 km (36 km electrified)

Highways:
total: 640 km
paved: NA
unpaved: NA

Ports: Castletown, Douglas, Peel, Ramsey

Merchant marine:
total: 68 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,810,355 GRT/3,183,773
DWT
ships by type: bulk 11, cargo 10, chemical tanker 4, container 9,
liquefied gas tanker 8, oil tanker 15, roll-on/roll-off cargo 9,
vehicle carrier 2
note: a flag of convenience registry; UK owns 9 ships, Switzerland 2,
Denmark 1, Netherlands 1

Airports:
total: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1

@Man, Isle Of:Communications

Telephone system: 24,435 telephones
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: NA

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 4
televisions: NA

@Man, Isle Of:Defense Forces

Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK

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MARSHALL ISLANDS

@Marshall Islands:Geography

Location: Oceania, group of atolls and reefs in the North Pacific
Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Papua New Guinea

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total area: 181.3 sq km
land area: 181.3 sq km
comparative area: slightly larger than Washington, DC
note: includes the atolls of Bikini, Eniwetak, and Kwajalein

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 370.4 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: claims US territory of Wake Island

Climate: wet season May to November; hot and humid; islands border
typhoon belt

Terrain