style="font-size:15px;"> 2,118 kWh (1992)Industries:
tourism, sugar, light manufacturing, component assembly for export,
petroleum
Agriculture:
accounts for 6% of GDP; major cash crop is sugarcane; other crops -
vegetables, cotton; not self-sufficient in food
Economic aid:
recipient:
US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70–89), $15 million; Western
(non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments (1970–89), $171
million
Currency:
1 Barbadian dollar (Bds$) = 100 cents
Exchange rates:
Barbadian dollars (Bds$) per US$1 - 2.0113 (fixed rate)
Fiscal year:
1 April - 31 March
@Barbados, Communications
Highways:
total:
1,570 km
paved:
1,475 km
unpaved:
gravel, earth 95 km
Ports:
Bridgetown
Merchant marine:
2 oil tankers (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 44,466 GRT/76,219 DWT
Airports:
total:
1
usable:
1
with permanent-surface runways:
1
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440–3,659 m:
1
with runways 1,220–2,439 m:
0
Telecommunications:
island wide automatic telephone system with 89,000 telephones;
tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad and Saint Lucia; broadcast
stations - 3 AM, 2 FM, 2 (1 is pay) TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth station
@Barbados, Defense Forces
Branches:
Royal Barbados Defense Force, including the Ground Forces and Coast
Guard, Royal Barbados Police Force
Manpower availability:
males age 15–49 70,751; fit for military service 49,330
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $10 million, 0.7% of GDP (1989)
@Bassas da India
Header Affiliation: (possession of France)
@Bassas da India, Geography
Location: Southern Africa, in the southern Mozambique Channel about halfway between Madagascar and Mozambique Map references: Africa Area: total area: NA km2 land area: NA km2 comparative area: NA Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 35.2 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm International disputes: claimed by Madagascar Climate: tropical Terrain: a volcanic rock 2.4 meters high Natural resources: none Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% (all rock) Irrigated land: 0 sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: surrounded by reefs; subject to periodic cyclones international agreements: NA Note: navigational hazard since it is usually under water during high tide
@Bassas da India, People
Population: uninhabited
@Bassas da India, Government
Names:
conventional long form:
none
conventional short form:
Bassas da India
Digraph:
BS
Type:
French possession administered by a Commissioner of the Republic,
resident in Reunion
Capital:
none; administered by France from Reunion
Independence:
none (possession of France)
@Bassas da India, Economy
Overview: no economic activity
@Bassas da India, Communications
Ports: none; offshore anchorage only
@Bassas da India, Defense Forces
Note: defense is the responsibility of France
@Belarus, Geography
Location:
Eastern Europe, between Poland and Russia
Map references:
Asia, Commonwealth of Independent States - European States, Europe,
Standard Time Zones of the World
Area:
total area:
207,600 sq km
land area:
207,600 sq km
comparative area:
slightly smaller than Kansas
Land boundaries:
total 3,098 km, Latvia 141 km, Lithuania 502 km, Poland 605 km, Russia
