ts, palm kernels,
coffee; food products - bananas, papaya, beans, poultry, fish; not
self-sufficient in food grain and meat

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $8 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $89 million

Currency: 1 dobra (Db) = 100 centimos

Exchange rates: dobras (Db) per US$1 - 129.59 (1 July 1993), 230
(1992), 260.0 (November 1991), 122.48 (December 1988), 72.827 (1987)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Sao Tome And Principe:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 300 km
paved: 200 km
unpaved: 100 km
note: roads on Principe are mostly unpaved and in need of repair

Ports: Santo Antonio, Sao Tome

Merchant marine:
total: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,096 GRT/1,105 DWT

Airports:
total: 2
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1

@Sao Tome And Principe:Communications

Telephone system: NA; minimal system
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 0
televisions: NA

@Sao Tome And Principe:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, National Police

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 33,789; males fit for military
service 17,752 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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SAUDI ARABIA

@Saudi Arabia:Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea,
north of Yemen

Map references: Middle East

Area:
total area: 1,960,582 sq km
land area: 1,960,582 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than one-fourth the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 4,415 km, Iraq 814 km, Jordan 728 km, Kuwait
222 km, Oman 676 km, Qatar 60 km, UAE 457 km, Yemen 1,458 km

Coastline: 2,640 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 18 nm
continental shelf: not specified
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: large section of boundary with Yemen not
defined; status of boundary with UAE not final; Kuwaiti ownership of
Qaruh and Umm al Maradim islands is disputed by Saudi Arabia

Climate: harsh, dry desert with great extremes of temperature

Terrain: mostly uninhabited, sandy desert

Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, gold, copper

Land