re: accounts for about 40% of GDP; cash crops - peanuts, shea
nuts, sesame, cotton; food crops - sorghum, millet, corn, rice;
livestock; not self-sufficient in food grains

Economic aid:
recipient: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $294 million;
Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1970-89), $2.9 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $113 million

Currency: 1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes

Exchange rates: CFA francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 529.43 (January 1995),
555.20 (1995), 283.16 (1993), 264.69 (1992), 282.11 (1991), 272.26
(1990)
note: beginning 12 January 1994 the CFA franc was devalued to CFAF 100
per French franc from CFAF 50 at which it had been fixed since 1948

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Burkina:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 620 km (520 km Ouagadougou to Cote d'Ivoire border and 100 km
Ouagadougou to Kaya; single track)
narrow gauge: 620 km 1.000-m gauge

Highways:
total: 16,500 km
paved: 1,300 km
unpaved: improved earth 7,400 km; unimproved earth 7,800 km (1985)

Ports: none

Airports:
total: 48
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 26
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 4
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 16

@Burkina:Communications

Telephone system: NA telephones; all services only fair
local: NA
intercity: microwave radio relay, wire, and radio communication
stations
international: 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

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

Television:
broadcast stations: 2
televisions: NA

@Burkina:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police,
People's Militia

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 2,081,999; males fit for
military service 1,065,605 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $104 million, 6.4% of
GDP (1994)

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BURMA

@Burma:Geography

Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of
Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand

Map references: Southeast Asia

Area:
total area: 678,500 sq km
land area: 657,740 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas

Land boundaries: total 5,876 km, Bangladesh 193 km, China 2,185 km,
India 1,463 km, Laos 235 km, Thailand 1,800 km

Coastline: