The 1994 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

petroleum and natural gas, petroleum products, oilfield equipment;

       steel, iron ore, cement; chemicals and petrochemicals; textiles

       iculture:

       cotton, grain, rice, grapes, fruit, vegetables, tea, tobacco; cattle,

       pigs, sheep and goats

       Illicit drugs:

       illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy; mostly for CIS

       consumption; limited government eradication program; transshipment

       point for illicit drugs to Western Europe

       Economic aid:

       recipient:

       wheat from Turkey

       Currency:

       1 manat = 100 gopik

       Exchange rates:

       NA

       Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      @Azerbaijan, Communications

      Railroads:

       2,090 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)

       Highways:

       total:

       36,700 km

       paved or graveled:

       31,800 km

       unpaved:

       earth 4,900 km (1990)

       Pipelines:

       crude oil 1,130 km; petroleum products 630 km; natural gas 1,240 km

       Ports:

       inland - Baku (Baky)

       Airports:

       total:

       65

       usable:

       33

       with permanent-surface runways:

       26

       with runways over 3,659 m:

       0

       with runways 2,440–3,659 m:

       8

       with runways 1,220–2,439 m:

       23

       Telecommunications:

       domestic telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate; 710,000

       domestic telephone lines [density - 9 lines per 100 persons (1991)],

       202,000 persons waiting for telephone installations (January 1991);

       connections to other former USSR republics by cable and microwave and

       to other countries via the Moscow international gateway switch;

       INTELSAT earth station installed in late 1992 in Baku with Turkish

       financial assistance with access to 200 countries through Turkey;

       since August 1993 an earth station near Baku has provided direct

       communications with New York through Russia's Stationar-11 satellite;

       a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system (Bakcel) in

       the Baku area is supposed to become operational in 1994; domestic and

       Russian TV programs are received locally and Turkish and Iranian TV is

       received from an INTELSAT satellite through a receive-only earth

       station

      @Azerbaijan, Defense Forces

      Branches:

       Army, Air Force, Navy, Maritime Border Guard, National Guard, Security

       Forces (internal and border troops)

       Manpower availability:

       males age 15–49 1,884,458; fit for military service 1,525,123; reach

       military age (18) annually 68,192 (1994 est.)

       Defense expenditures:

       2,848 million rubles, NA% of GDP (1992 est.); note - conversion of the

       military budget into US dollars using the current exchange rate could

       produce misleading results

      @The Bahamas, Geography

      Location:

       Caribbean, in the western North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida

       and northwest of Cuba

       Map references:

       Central America and the Caribbean, North America, Standard Time Zones

       of the World

       Area:

       total area:

       13,940 sq km

       land area:

       10,070 sq km

       comparative area:

       slightly larger than Connecticut

       Land boundaries:

       0 km

       Coastline:

       3,542 km

       Maritime claims:

       continental shelf:

       200-m depth or to depth of exploitation

       exclusive fishing zone:

       200 nm

       territorial sea:

       3 nm

       International disputes:

       none

       Climate:

       tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream

       Terrain:

       long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills

       Natural resources:

       salt, aragonite, timber

       Land use:

       arable land:

       1%

       permanent crops:

       0%

       meadows and pastures:

       0%

       forest and woodland:

       32%

       other:

       67%

       Irrigated land:

       NA sq km

       Environment:

       current issues:

       NA

       natural hazards:

       subject to hurricanes and other tropical storms that cause extensive

       flood and wind damage

       international agreements:

       party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the

       Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution

       Note:

       strategic location adjacent to US and Cuba; extensive island chain

      @The Bahamas, People

      Population:

       273,055 (July 1994 est.)

       Population growth rate:

       1.57% (1994 est.)

       Birth rate:

       18.86 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)

       Death rate:

       5.38 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)

       Net migration rate:

       2.24 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)

       Infant mortality rate:

       33.5 deaths/1,000 live births (1994 est.)