The 2005 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

- commodities:

       manufactures, coffee, oils, cocoa, mangoes

      Exports - partners:

       US 81.2%, Dominican Republic 7.3%, Canada 4.1% (2004)

      Imports:

       $1.085 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       food, manufactured goods, machinery and transport equipment, fuels,

       raw materials

      Imports - partners:

       US 34.8%, Netherlands Antilles 18%, Malaysia 5.1%, Colombia 4.7%

       (2004)

      Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:

       $80.64 million (2004 est.)

      Debt - external:

       $1.2 billion (2004 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $150 million (FY04 est.)

      Currency (code):

       gourde (HTG)

      Currency code:

       HTG

      Exchange rates:

       gourdes per US dollar - 38.352 (2004), 42.367 (2003), 29.251

       (2002), 24.429 (2001), 21.171 (2000)

      Fiscal year:

       1 October - 30 September

      Communications Haiti

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       130,000 (2002)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       140,000 (2002)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: domestic facilities barely adequate;

       international facilities slightly better

       domestic: coaxial cable and microwave radio relay trunk service

       international: country code - 509; satellite earth station - 1

       Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations:

       AM 41, FM 26, shortwave 0 (1999)

      Radios:

       415,000 (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       2 (plus a cable TV service) (1997)

      Televisions:

       38,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .ht

      Internet hosts:

       NA

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       3 (2000)

      Internet users:

       80,000 (2002)

      Transportation Haiti

      Highways: total: 4,160 km paved: 1,011 km unpaved: 3,149 km (1999 est.)

      Ports and harbors:

       Cap-Haitien

      Airports:

       13 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways:

       total: 4

       2,438 to 3,047 m: 1

       914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

       total: 9

       914 to 1,523 m: 4

       under 914 m: 5 (2004 est.)

      Military Haiti

      Military branches:

       the regular Haitian Armed Forces (FAdH) - Army, Navy, and Air Force

       - have been demobilized but still exist on paper until or unless

       they are constitutionally abolished

      Military service age and obligation: 18 years of age for voluntary recruitment into the police force (2001)

      Manpower available for military service:

       males age 18–49: 1,626,491 (2005 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

       males age 18–49: 948,320 (2005 est.)

      Manpower reaching military service age annually:

       males: 98,554 (2005 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $26 million (2003)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       0.9% (2003)

      Transnational Issues Haiti

      Disputes - international:

       since 2004, about 8,000 peacekeepers from the UN Stabilization

       Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) maintain civil order in Haiti; despite

       efforts to control illegal migration, Haitians fleeing economic

       privation and civil unrest continue to cross into Dominican Republic

       and to sail to neighboring countries; Haiti claims US-administered

       Navassa Island

      Illicit drugs:

       major Caribbean transshipment point for cocaine en route to the US

       and Europe; substantial money-laundering activity; Colombian

       narcotics traffickers favor Haiti for illicit financial

       transactions; pervasive corruption

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      @Heard Island and McDonald Islands

      Introduction Heard Island and McDonald Islands

      Background:

       These uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands were transferred

       from the UK to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal

       and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.

      Geography Heard Island and McDonald Islands

      Location:

       islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from

       Madagascar to Antarctica

      Geographic coordinates:

       53 06 S, 72 31 E

      Map references:

       Antarctic Region

      Area:

       total: 412 sq km

       land: 412 sq km

       water: 0 sq km

      Area - comparative:

       slightly more than two times the size of Washington, DC

      Land boundaries:

       0 km

      Coastline:

       101.9 km

      Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm

      Climate:

       antarctic

      Terrain:

       Heard Island - 80% ice-covered, bleak and mountainous, dominated by

       a large massif (Big Ben) and an active volcano (Mawson Peak);

       McDonald Islands - small and rocky

      Elevation extremes:

       lowest point: Indian