so a money-laundering center

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY85-89), $1 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $345 million

Currency: 1 Bahamian dollar (B$) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Bahamian dollar (B$) per US$1 - 1.00 (fixed rate)

Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

@The Bahamas:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 2,400 km
paved: 1,350 km
unpaved: gravel 1,050 km

Ports: Freeport, Matthew Town, Nassau

Merchant marine:
total: 936 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 21,815,474
GRT/35,253,416 DWT
ships by type: bulk 162, cargo 181, chemical tanker 39, combination
bulk 9, combination ore/oil 19, container 52, liquefied gas tanker 20,
oil tanker 182, passenger 55, refrigerated cargo 146, roll-on/roll-off
cargo 43, short-sea passenger 16, vehicle carrier 12
note: a flag of convenience registry; includes 46 countries among
which are UK 158 ships, Norway 125, Greece 100, US 94, Denmark 80,
Netherlands 53, France 36, Finland 35, Japan 35, Sweden 25

Airports:
total: 60
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 16
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 11
with paved runways under 914 m: 22
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 8

@The Bahamas:Communications

Telephone system: 99,000 telephones; totally automatic system; highly
developed
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: tropospheric scatter and submarine cable links to
Florida; 3 coaxial submarine cables; 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth
station

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 3, FM 2, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 1
televisions: NA

@The Bahamas:Defense Forces

Branches: Royal Bahamas Defense Force (Coast Guard only), Royal
Bahamas Police Force

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $65 million, 2.7% of
GDP (1990)

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BAHRAIN

@Bahrain:Geography

Location: Middle East, archipelago in the Persian Gulf, east of Saudi
Arabia

Map references: Middle East

Area:
total area: 620 sq km
land area: 620 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 161 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
continental shelf: extending to boundaries to be