Fernando

Highways:
total: 8,000 km
paved: 4,000 km
unpaved: improved earth 1,000 km; unimproved earth 3,000 km

Pipelines: crude oil 1,032 km; petroleum products 19 km; natural gas
904 km

Ports: Pointe-a-Pierre, Point Fortin, Point Lisas, Port-of-Spain,
Scarborough, Tembladora

Merchant marine:
total: 2 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 12,507 GRT/21,923
DWT

Airports:
total: 6
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 2
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 1

@Trinidad And Tobago:Communications

Telephone system: 109,000 telephones; excellent international service
via tropospheric scatter links to Barbados and Guyana; good local
service
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 1 INTELSAT (Atlantic Ocean) earth station; linked to
Barbados and Guyana by tropospheric scatter system

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 5
televisions: NA

@Trinidad And Tobago:Defense Forces

Branches: Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force (includes Ground Forces,
Coast Guard, and Air Wing), Trinidad and Tobago Police Service

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 347,841; males fit for military
service 249,904 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $83 million, 1.5% of
GDP (1994)

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TROMELIN ISLAND

(possession of France)

@Tromelin Island:Geography

Location: Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of
Madagascar

Map references: Africa

Area:
total area: 1 sq km
land area: 1 sq km
comparative area: about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 3.7 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 12 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: claimed by Madagascar, Mauritius, and
Seychelles

Climate: tropical

Terrain: sandy

Natural resources: fish

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

Irrigated land: 0 sq km

Environment:
current issues: NA
natural hazards: NA
international agreements: NA

Note: climatologically impo