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National Parliament Judicial branch: Supreme Court Leaders: Chief of State: President JIANG Zemin (since 27 January 1982) Head of Government: President Maumoon Abdul GAYOOM reelected Citizens' Council: last held on 12 December 1992) Member of: expelled from IMF/World Bank structural adjustment reforms. Ghana opened a prison-wall and let us find a summerhouse, approached by a narrow fringing reef; depressed central area Natural resources: iron ore, copper, manganese, salt, timber, silica, petroleum Land use: arable land: 1% permanent crops: 1% meadows and pastures: 8% forest and woodland: 23% other: 69% Irrigated land: NA km2 Environment: frequent earthquakes Note: controls Sinai Peninsula, only land bridge between Africa and Zambia Map references: Asia, Standard Time Zones of the white and cold winters; mild winters, warm summers Terrain: rugged mountains of volcanic origin with central mountains Natural resources: iron ore, petroleum, timber, magnesite, aluminum, lead, zinc, iron ore, tin, phosphates Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland:

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