Italy 6% (1999)
Imports: $2.5 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities: food, consumer goods; capital goods, fuel, transport equipment
Imports - partners: France 26%, Nigeria 10%, China 7%, Italy 5%,
Germany 4% (1999)
Debt - external: $13.9 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $1 billion (1996 est.)
Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF); note - responsible authority is the Central Bank of the West African States
Currency code: XOF
Exchange rates: Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (XOF) per US dollar - 699.21 (January 2001), 711.98 (2000), 615.70 (1999), 589.95 (1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55 (1996); note - from 1 January 1999, the XOF is pegged to the euro at a rate of 655.957 XOF per euro
Fiscal year: calendar year
Cote d'Ivoire Communications
Telephones - main lines in use: 219,283 (31 December 1999)
Telephones - mobile cellular: 322,500 (May 2000)
Telephone system: general assessment: well developed by African standards but operating well below capacity
domestic: open-wire lines and microwave radio relay; 90% digitalized
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); 2 coaxial submarine cables (June 1999)
Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)
Radios: 2.26 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 14 (1999)
Televisions: 900,000 (1997)
Internet country code: .ci
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 5 (2001)
Internet users: 20,000 (2000)
Cote d'Ivoire Transportation
Railways: total: 660 km
narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge; 25 km double track
note: an additional 600 km of this railroad extends into Burkina Faso, ending at Kaya, north of Ouagadougou (2000)
Highways: total: 50,400 km
paved: 4,889 km
unpaved: 45,511 km (1996)
Waterways: 980 km (navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons)
Ports and harbors: Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro
Merchant marine: total: 1 ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,200
GRT/1,500 DWT
ships by type: petroleum tanker 1 (2000 est.)
Airports: 36 (2000 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 7
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2000 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 29
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 12
under 914 m: 9 (2000 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire Military
Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary Gendarmerie,
Republican Guard (includes Presidential Guard), Sapeur-Pompier
(Military Fire Group)
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower - availability: males age 15–49: 3,851,432 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15–49: 2,010,862 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 188,411 (2001 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $94 million (FY96)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1% (FY96)
Cote d'Ivoire Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for local consumption; transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin to Europe and occasionally to the US, and for Latin American cocaine destined for Europe
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@Croatia
Croatia Introduction
Background: In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became an independent communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
Croatia Geography
Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia
Geographic coordinates: 45 10 N, 15 30 E
Map references: Europe
Area: total: 56,542 sq km
land: 56,414 sq km
water: 128 sq km
Area - comparative: slightly smaller than West Virginia
Land boundaries: total: 2,028 km
border countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km, Yugoslavia 266 km, Slovenia 501 km
Coastline: 5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)
Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
territorial sea: 12 NM
Climate: Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot
