ons carry intercity traffic
international: 3 INTELSAT earth stations (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1
Indian Ocean) and 1 coaxial submarine cable carry international
traffic

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 35, FM 17, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 28
televisions: NA

@Nigeria:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary Police Force

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 23,167,009; males fit for
military service 13,246,223; males reach military age (18) annually
1,024,059 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $172 million, about
1% of GDP (1992)

________________________________________________________________________

NIUE

(free association with New Zealand)

@Niue:Geography

Location: Oceania, island in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Tonga

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total area: 260 sq km
land area: 260 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 64 km

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

International disputes: none

Climate: tropical; modified by southeast trade winds

Terrain: steep limestone cliffs along coast, central plateau

Natural resources: fish, arable land

Land use:
arable land: 61%
permanent crops: 4%
meadows and pastures: 4%
forest and woodland: 19%
other: 12%

Irrigated land: NA sq km

Environment:
current issues: traditional methods of burning brush and trees to
clear land for agriculture have threatened soil supplies which
naturally are not very abundant
natural hazards: typhoons
international agreements: signed, but not ratified - Law of the Sea

Note: one of world's largest coral islands

@Niue:People

Population: 1,837 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: NA
15-64 years: NA
65 years and over: NA

Population growth rate: -3.66% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: NA

Death rate: NA

Net migration rate: NA

Infant mortality rate: NA

Life expectancy at birth: NA

Total fertility rate: NA

Nationality:
noun: Niuean(s)
adjective: Niuean

Ethnic divisions: Polynesian (with some 200 Europeans, Samoans, and
Tongans)

Religions: Ekalesia Nieue (Niuean Church) 75% - a Protestant church
closely related to the London Missionary Society, Morman 10%, other
15% (mostly Roman Catholic, Jehovah's Witnesses, Se