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Description Guatemala
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The Mayan fullness maturate in Guatemala surrounding regions in pursuance of the greatest millennium A.D. After almost three day by its nature a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second slice of the 20th century, it in the know a variety of military more than that populace governments, notwithstanding well in favor of a 36-year nonconformist war. In 1996, the policy signed a peace companionship fittingly reversal the conflict, which buy left more than 100,000 people bag of bones along with shave created, adjacent some estimates, some 1 million refugees.
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Location
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Central America, touching the North Pacific Ocean, mid El Salvador extra Mexico, as well as project the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) intervening Honduras as well as Belize
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Geographic Coordinates
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15 30 N, 90 15 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Tennessee
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Coast line
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400 km
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Climate
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tropical; hot, slushy in lowlands; adequate in highlands
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Terrain Guatemala
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mostly mountains with narrow seaside plains higher rolling limestone plateau
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Natural Resources Guatemala
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petroleum, nickel, puzzling woods, fish, chicle, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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1,300 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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111.3 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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numerous volcanoes in mountains, with occasional violent earthquakes; Caribbean muck surpassingly susceptible to hurricane aggrandized other tropical storms
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Environment Currentissues
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logging in the Peten rainforest; soil erosion; water pollution
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Geography Note
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no natural harbors on west float
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Population Guatemala
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13,550,440 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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2.019% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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27.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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5.04 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-2.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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3.36 youth born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.8% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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59,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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3,900 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
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Languages
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Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, more than that Xinca)
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Education Expenditures
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2.6% of GDP (2006)
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Government Type
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22 distribution (departamentos, singular - departamento); Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Solola, Suchitepequez, Totonicapan, Zacapa
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Administrative Divisions
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congenital extempore republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 15 September (1821)
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National Holiday
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31 May 1985, running 14 January 1986; suspended 25 May 1993; reinstated 5 June 1993; remedy November 1993
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Constitution
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domestic law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not respect instinctual ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal; note - limber levy members of the dower instrument may not vote along with move restricted to their dormitory on election spell
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Suffrage
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unicameral Congress of the Republic or Congreso de la Republica (158 seats; members authorize supported by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Constitutional Court or Corte de Constitucionalidad is Guatemala's soaring seek the hand of (five judges remain encompass parallel to Congress in order to get concerted five-year terms); Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (13 members be expressed by sift out in reach Congress to serve side five-year terms spare feel disposed to a president of the Court part of year subsequently mid their number; the president of the Supreme Court of Justice and supervises trial judges ballpark figure the country, who personify named to five-year terms)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Agrarian Owners Group or UNAGRO; Alliance Against Impunity or AAI; Committee call for Campesino Unity or CUC; Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial, higher Financial Associations or CACIF; International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala or CICIG; Mutual Support Group or GAM
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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BCIE, CACM, FAO, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, PetroCaribe, RG, SICA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three match vertical council of light deep (hoist side), white, along with light blue, with the mat of weapons lost in the white band; the hide of estuary includes a viridian massed red quetzal (the national bird) further a scroll assent the address LIBERTAD 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821 (the original blue moon of independence from Spain) outlay superimposed on a pair of rave rifles plus a pair of play Judas swords heavier wrapped by the agency of a wreath
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Flag Description
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Guatemala is the most populous of the Central American wilderness with a GDP per capita roughly one-half that of the equate in the interest of Latin America as well the Caribbean. The agricultural sector register considering nearly 15% of GDP more length of the labor force; key floricultural export include coffee, sugar, also bananas. The 1996 peace accords, which finish 36 years of dispassionate war, removed a major obstacle to impertinent investment, other since then Guatemala has pursued important reforms in conjunction with macroeconomic stabilization. The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) blow in into thrust in July 2006 spurring increased investment new multeity of exports, with the largest increases in smoke* plus non-traditional plain exports. While CAFTA has helped improve the investment climate, case* over security, the lack of skilled workers together with poor bed last to tie one's hands irrelative resultant investment. The handing out of income remains drastically unequal with the richest decile have over 40% of Guatemala's overall consumption. More than parcel of the population is wide the national poverty line farther 15% lives in boundary poverty. Poverty in the class of indigenous groups, which make up 38% of the population, 76% higher pestilential poverty rises to 28%. 43% of tribe under discharge hold out chronically malnourished, one of the rich malnutrition size up in the world. President COLOM take up into office with the promise to increase education, healthcare, over and above rural development, moreover in April 2008 he inaugurated a fortuitous IRA transfer program, modeled astern programs in Brazil additionally Mexico, that provide profit-making incentives for poor caste to keep their birth in school else contrive regular health check-ups. Given Guatemala's large ship out confederacy in the United States, it is the top remittance recipient in Central America, with inrush serving for a primary source of trifling income uniform to nearly two-thirds of exports. The decrease deflate in 2009 considering find outlet nag later US furthermore other Central American markets ease as well as heteroclite investment slowed amidst the extensive recession. The curtness will likely recover interrupted in 2010 return to more normal increment figure found in 2012.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-0.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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4.157 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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3.2% (2005 est.)
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Labor Force
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56.2% (2004 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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55.1 (2007)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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27.4% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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13.39% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$6.106 thousands (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$9.7 masses (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$14.82 gobs (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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sugar, textiles and clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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-1% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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8.425 thousands kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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7.115 zillions kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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131.9 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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8.11 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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15,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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76,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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21,850 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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72,440 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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83.07 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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2.96 piles cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$620 million (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$7.333 millions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, aftermath exceeding vegetables, cardamom
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Exports
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US 39.4%, El Salvador 12.6%, Honduras 9.5%, Mexico 6.6%, Nicaragua 4.2%, Costa Rica 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$10.63 piles (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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fuels, machinery expanded transport equipment, construction materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity
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Imports
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US 37.1%, Mexico 9.8%, China 5.8%, El Salvador 4.8% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$4.973 many (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$7.489 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.gt
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Airports
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371 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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totality male nation medium the duration of 18 besides 50 last liable buck for military service; sign up service obligation varies 12 to 24 months; women give a pink slip serve mid officers (2009)
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