artners: US, Japan

Imports: $24.6 million (c.i.f., 1989)
commodities: NA
partners: US

External debt: about $100 million (1989)

Industrial production: growth rate NA%

Electricity:
capacity: 16,000 kW
production: 22 million kWh
consumption per capita: 1,540 kWh (1990)

Industries: tourism, craft items (shell, wood, pearl), some commercial
fishing and agriculture

Agriculture: subsistence-level production of coconut, copra, cassava,
sweet potatoes

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $2.56 billion;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $92 million

Currency: 1 United States dollar (US$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: US currency is used

Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September

@Palau:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 61 km
paved: 36 km
unpaved: gravel 25 km

Ports: Koror

Merchant marine: none

Airports:
total: 3
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 2

@Palau:Communications

Telephone system: NA telephones
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 1 INTELSAT (Pacific Ocean) earth station

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

Television:
broadcast stations: 2
televisions: NA

@Palau:Defense Forces

Branches: NA

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

Note: defense is the responsibility of the US pursuant to Compact of
Free Association which entered into force 1 October 1994

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PALMYRA ATOLL

(territory of the US)

@Palmyra Atoll:Geography

Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-half of
the way from Hawaii to American Samoa

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total area: 11.9 sq km
land area: 11.9 sq km
comparative area: about 20 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 14.5 km

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

International disputes: none

Climate: equatorial, hot, and very rainy

Terrain: low, with maximum elevations of about 2 meters

Natural resources: none

Land use:
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
meadows and pastures: 0%
forest and woodland: 100%
other: 0%

Irrigated land: 0 sq km

Environment:
current issues: NA
natural hazards: NA
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