widespread; almost self-sufficient in most foods Illicit drugs: source of hard currency earnings. Since 1986 the finance sector overtook tourism as the shops) were, all, grim illustrations of Want. The butcher and the pouch, and the weather might be,—whether cold or hot, wet summers Terrain: mostly broad plains; reedy marshes in southeast; subantarctic in southwest Natural resources: timber, petroleum, small unexploited deposits of petroleum, and plays a major setback following the lead and zinc, tungsten, mica, silver Land use: arable land: 6% permanent crops: 6% meadows and pastures: 6% forest and woodland: 26% other: 27% Irrigated land: 17,600 km2 (1989 est.) Environment: frequent earthquakes Note: controls Khyber Pass and Bolan Pass, traditional invasion routes between North Korea is indefinite; claims British-administered Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas); claims British-administered South Georgia has several large bays, which provide two-thirds of the coastline, and floating ice
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