The 1990 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

rates: Bahraini dinars (BD) per US$1—0.3760 (fixed rate)

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      - Communications Highways: 200 km bituminous surfaced, including 25 km bridge-causeway to Saudi Arabia opened in November 1986; NA km natural surface tracks

      Ports: Mina Salman, Mina al Manamah, Sitrah

      Merchant marine: 1 cargo and 1 bulk (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 28,621

       GRT/44,137 DWT

      Pipelines: crude oil, 56 km; refined products, 16 km; natural gas, 32 km

      Civil air: 24 major transport aircraft

      Airports: 3 total, 3 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 1,220–2,439 m

      Telecommunications: excellent international telecommunications; adequate domestic services; 98,000 telephones; stations—2 AM, 1 FM, 2 TV; satellite earth stations—1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT; tropospheric scatter and microwave to Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar and UAE

      - Defense Forces

       Branches: Army (Defense Force), Navy, Air Force, Police Force

      Military manpower: males 15–49, 183,580; 102,334 fit for military service

      Defense expenditures: 5% of GDP, or $194 million (1990 est.)—————————————————————————— Country: Baker Island (territory of the US) - Geography Total area: 1.4 km2; land area: 1.4 km2

      Comparative area: about 2.3 times the size of The Mall in Washington, DC

      Land boundaries: none

      Coastline: 4.8 km

      Maritime claims:

      Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

      Continental shelf: 200 m;

      Extended economic zone: 200 nm;

      Territorial sea: 12 nm

      Climate: equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun

      Terrain: low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow fringing reef

      Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until 1891)

      Land use: 0% arable land; 0% permanent crops; 0% meadows and pastures; 0% forest and woodland; 100% other

      Environment: treeless, sparse and scattered vegetation consisting of grasses, prostrate vines, and low growing shrubs; lacks fresh water; primarily a nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat for seabirds, shorebirds, and marine wildlife

      Note: remote location 2,575 km southwest of Honolulu in the North Pacific

       Ocean, just north of the Equator, about halfway between Hawaii and Australia

      - People

       Population: uninhabited

      Note: American civilians evacuated in 1942 after Japanese air and naval attacks during World War II; occupied by US military during World War II, but abandoned after the war; public entry is by special-use permit only and generally restricted to scientists and educators; a cemetery and cemetery ruins located near the middle of the west coast

      - Government

       Long-form name: none

      Type: unincorporated territory of the US administered by the Fish and Wildlife Service of the US Department of the Interior as part of the National Wildlife Refuge system

      - Economy

       Overview: no economic activity

      - Communications Ports: none; offshore anchorage only, one boat landing area along the the middle of the west coast

      Airports: 1 abandoned World War II runway of 1,665 m

      Note: there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast

      - Defense Forces

       Note: defense is the responsibility of the US; visited annually by the

       US Coast Guard

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       Country: Bangladesh

       - Geography

       Total area: 144,000 km2; land area: 133,910 km2

      Comparative area: slightly smaller than Wisconsin

      Land boundaries: 4,246 km total; Burma 193 km, India 4,053 km

      Coastline: 580 km

      Maritime claims:

      Contiguous zone: 18 nm;

      Continental shelf: up to outer limits of continental margin;

      Extended economic zone: 200 nm;

      Territorial sea: 12 nm

      Disputes: a portion of the boundary with India is in dispute; water sharing problems with upstream riparian India over the Ganges

      Climate: tropical; cool, dry winter (October to March); hot, humid summer

       (March to June); cool, rainy monsoon (June to October)

      Terrain: mostly flat alluvial plain; hilly in southeast

      Natural resources: natural gas, uranium, arable land, timber

      Land use: 67% arable land; 2% permanent crops; 4% meadows and pastures; 16% forest and woodland; 11% other; includes 14% irrigated

      Environment: vulnerable to droughts; much of country routinely flooded during summer monsoon season; overpopulation; deforestation

      Note: almost completely surrounded by India

      - People

       Population: 118,433,062 (July 1990), growth rate 2.8% (1990)

      Birth rate: 42 births/1,000 population (1990)

      Death rate: 14 deaths/1,000 population (1990)

      Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1990)

      Infant mortality rate: 136 deaths/1,000 live births (1990)

      Life expectancy at birth: 54 years male, 53 years female (1990)

      Total fertility rate: 5.7 children born/woman (1990)

      Nationality: noun—Bangladeshi(s); adjective—Bangladesh

      Ethnic divisions: 98% Bengali; 250,000 Biharis, and less than 1 million tribals

      Religion: 83% Muslim, about 16% Hindu, less than 1% Buddhist, Christian, and other

      Language: Bangla (official), English widely used

      Literacy: 29% (39% men, 18% women)

      Labor force: 35,100,000; 74% agriculture, 15% services, 11% industry and commerce; extensive export of labor to Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, and Kuwait (FY86)

      Organized labor: 3% of labor force belongs to 2,614 registered unions (1986 est.)

      - Government

       Long-form name: People's Republic of Bangladesh

      Type: republic

      Capital: Dhaka

      Administrative divisions: 64 districts (zillagulo,

       singular—zilla); Bagerhat, Bandarban, Barisal, Bhola, Bogra,

       Borguna, Brahmanbaria, Chandpur, Chapai Nawabganj,

       Chattagram, Chuadanga, Comilla, Cox's Bazar, Dhaka,

       Dinajpur, Faridpur, Feni, Gaibandha, Gazipur, Gopalganj,

       Habiganj, Jaipurhat, Jamalpur, Jessore, Jhalakati, Jhenaidah,

       Khagrachari, Khulna, Kishorganj, Kurigram, Kushtia, Laksmipur,