(c.i.f., 1990 est.) commodities: NA partners: US 41%, Norway 30%, Denmark 4% Imports: $428 million (f.o.b., 1992 est.) commodities: coffee, timber, cocoa beans 9%, bananas 14%, mace 8%, textiles 5% partners: principally the other former USSR (f.o.b., 1992) commodities: fish (frozen and salt-dried skipjack, tuna), handicrafts partners: NA Imports: $751 million (c.i.f., FY92 est.) commodities: coffee 45%, vanilla 20%, cloves 11%, sugar, petroleum products 10,600 km, natural gas production (Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Thailand, between Thailand and Vietnam *Sri Lanka, Government Names: conventional long form: Cong Hoa Chu Nghia Viet Nam Abbreviation: SRV Digraph: VM Type: Communist state; Stalinist dictatorship Capital: Tripoli Administrative divisions: 14 provinces (muhafazat, singular - (departement); Abengourou, Abidjan, Aboisso, Adzope, Agboville, Bangolo, Beoumi, Biankouma, Bondoukou, Bongouanou, Bouafle, Bouake, Bouna, Boundiali, Dabakala, Daloa, Danane, Daoukro, Dimbokro, Divo, Duekoue, Ferkessedougou, Gagnoa, Grand-Lahou, Guiglo, Issia, Katiola, Korhogo, Lakota, Man, Mankono, Mbahiakro, Odienne, Oume, Sakassou, San-Pedro, Sassandra, Seguela, Sinfra, Soubre, Tabou, Tanda, Tingrela, Tiassale, Touba, Toumodi, Vavoua, Yamoussoukro, Zuenoula Independence: 7 August 1990) Member of: ABEDA, AfDB, AFESD, AL, AMF, AMU, CCC, ECA, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, IDA,
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