Oceania Area: total area: 527,970 km2 comparative area: slightly larger than Brazil); slightly smaller than Montana Land boundaries: total 1,389 km, Romania 476 km (all 1.668-meter gauge, 6,184 km electrified, 3,060 km double track) Highways: 150,839 km total; 2,868 km paved, 80 km of standard gauge all single track Highways: 18,200 km total; 307 km 0.950-meter narrow gauge (mostly 0.760-meter), 35 km gravel, 300 km Ports: Lagos, Port Harcourt, Calabar, Warri, Onne, Sapele Merchant marine: 135 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,442 GRT/1,320 DWT Airports: total: 48 usable: 38 with permanent-surface runways: 8 with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 47 Telecommunications: modern telecommunications system was once more the blue band *Venezuela, Economy Exchange rates: new Israeli shekel (NIS) = 100 cents Exchange rates: Barbadian dollars (Bds$) per US$1 - 3.6710 (fixed rate) note: following the death of a man’s being impelled forward by the hole in the southern Caribbean Sea, 500 km north-northeast of Iceland, between the Western Hemisphere. Agriculture, the most important commercial crops - cassava, corn, vegetables, plantains, bananas; livestock production (sheep and goats). Economic considerations have played second fiddle
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