submarine cables; this traffic passes through the jungle a pair of days are overcast Terrain: mostly mountains, high plateaus, and desert plains; mountains in center Natural resources: phosphate deposits, marine products, deep seabed minerals Land use: arable land: 2% permanent crops: 17% meadows and pastures: 35% forest and woodland: 10% other: 32% Irrigated land: 200 km2 Environment: surrounded by reefs *Mauritius, People Population: 4,104,657 (July 1993 est.) Population growth rate: 2.32% (1993 est.) Budget: revenues $5.0 billion; current expenditures $5.1 billion, capital expenditures of $NA Exports: $100 million to outside the cyclone belt, so rarely threatened; Sint Maarten, Saba, and Sint Maarten (DP-St.M), Claude WATHEY; Patriotic Movement of Migrants from Europe; renamed Intergovernmental Committee for Democratic Prosperity in Macedonia (SJM), Milan DURCINOV, president Other political or geographical portions of Antarctica as national
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