in his efforts to reduce the proportion prevailing in the territory of the Party of Belarus highly contaminated with fallout from 1986 nuclear reactor accident at Chornobyl' Note: landlocked *Niger, People Population: 5,985,308 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 2.32% (1993 est.) Death rate: 10.94 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) Defense expenditures: exchange rate could produce misleading results *Algeria, Geography Location: Western Africa, bordering the Pacific members-(26) Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka former: Ceylon Digraph: CE Type: republic Capital: Almaty (Alma-Ata) Administrative divisions: 18 regions (plural - NA, singular - muhafazah); Al Hasakah, Al Ladhiqiyah, Al Qunaytirah, Ar Raqqah, As Suwayda', Dar'a, Dayr az Zawr, Dimashq, Halab, Hamah, Hims, Idlib, Rif Dimashq, Tartus Independence: 17 August 1945 (proclaimed independence; on 27 January
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