ommodities: fuels, machinery and parts, transport equipment,
grain and other foods, pharmaceuticals

Imports - partners: EU 23.8%, Turkey 16%, Russia 12.8%, US 10.1%,
Germany 7.9% (2000)

Debt - external: $1.7 billion (2001)

Economic aid - recipient: $212.7 million (1995)

Currency: lari (GEL)

Currency code: GEL

Exchange rates: lari per US dollar - 2.1888 (January 2002), 2.0730
(2001), 1.9762 (2000), 2.0245 (1999), 1.3898 (1998), 1.2975 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Georgia

Telephones - main lines in use: 620,000 (1997)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 185,500 (2000)

Telephone system: general assessment: NA domestic: local - T'bilisi
and K'ut'aisi have cellular telephone networks; urban telephone density
is about 20 per 100 people; rural telephone density is about 4 per 100
people; intercity facilities include a fiber-optic line between T'bilisi
and K'ut'aisi; nationwide pager service is available international:
Georgia and Russia are working on a fiber-optic line between P'ot'i and
Sochi (Russia); present international service is available by microwave,
landline, and satellite through the Moscow switch; international
electronic mail and telex service are available

Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 12, shortwave 4 (1998)

Radios: 3.02 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 12 (plus repeaters) (1998)

Televisions: 2.57 million (1997)

Internet country code: .ge

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (2000)

Internet users: 20,000 (2000)

Transportation Georgia

Railways: total: 1,583 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines broad gauge: 1,546 km 1.520-m gauge narrow gauge:
37 km 0.912-m gauge (2000 est.)

Highways: total: 33,900 km paved: 29,500 km (includes some all-weather
gravel-surfaced roads) unpaved: 4,400 km (these roads are made of
unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)

Waterways: none

Pipelines: crude oil 370 km; refined products 300 km; natural gas 440 km
(1992)

Ports and harbors: Bat'umi, P'ot'i, Sokhumi

Merchant marine: total: 64 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 210,620
GRT/288,565 DWT ships by type: bulk 5, cargo 46, container 5, petroleum
tanker 7, roll on/roll off 1 note: includes some foreign-owned ships
registered here as a flag of convenience: Belize 1, Bulgaria 1, Cyprus 1,
Ecuador 1, Egypt 4, Gibraltar 1, Greece 5, Jordan 1, Latvia 1, Liberia 1,
Malt