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External debt: $181 million (1993 est.)

Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $NA

Currency: 1 Seychelles rupee (SRe) = 100 cents

Exchange rates: Seychelles rupees (SRe) per US$1 - 4.9257 (January 1996), 4.7620 (1995), 5.0559 (1994), 5.1815 (1993), 5.1220 (1992), 5.2893 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation --------------

Railways: 0 km

Highways: total: 269 km paved: 187 km unpaved: 82 km (1988 est.)

Ports: Victoria

Merchant marine: none

Airports: total: 14 with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 1 with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5 with paved runways under 914 m: 6 with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 2 (1995 est.)

Communications --------------

Telephones: 8,300 (1982 est.)

Telephone system: domestic: radiotelephone communications between islands in the archipelago international: direct radiotelephone communications with adjacent island countries and African coastal countries; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 34,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 2

Televisions: 8,200 (1991 est.)

Defense -------

Branches: Army, Coast Guard, Marines, National Guard, Presidential Protection Unit, Police Force

Manpower availability: males age 15-49: 21,547 males fit for military service: 10,883 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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@Sierra Leone ------------

Map ---

Location: 8 30 N, 11 30 W -- Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Liberia

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Description: three equal horizontal bands of light green (top), white, and light blue