National Basic Intelligence FactbookCentral Intelligence Agency, 1978 - Geography |
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31 December accepted compulsory ICJ AFDB Agriculture annual growth rate Atlantic Ocean average annual growth calendar year COMMUNICATIONS capita Exports COMMUNICATIONS Railroads compulsory ICJ jurisdiction DEFENSE FORCES Military ECONOMY GNP Elections Electric power Ethnic divisions fit for military FORCES Military manpower GATT Government leader GOVERNMENT Legal name IAEA IBRD ICAO ICJ jurisdiction National IMCO Islands jurisdiction National holiday km paved km PEOPLE Population km total km WATER Limits km² kW capacity 1977 kWh per capita kWh produced 1977 Land boundaries Legal system Limits of territorial Literacy Major industries Major trade partners major transport aircraft metric tons million f.o.b. million kWh produced minor Civil air Monetary conversion rate Organized labor parties and leaders permanent-surface runways petroleum Political parties Political subdivisions popl reference map Republic seaplane station DEFENSE FORCES station Telecommunications Suffrage territorial waters claimed transport aircraft Airfields UNESCO unimproved earth usable West Germany WIPO
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Page xii - WFP World Food Programme WHO World Health Organization WIPO World Intellectual Property Organization WMO World Meteorological Organization In the column headed "Membership...
Page xii - FAO Food and Agriculture Organization GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...
Page 86 - French civil law system, customary law, and presidential decree; constitution adopted 1958; no constitutional provision for judicial review of legislative acts; has not accepted compulsory...
Page 208 - US constitutions adopted 1959; some judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court in joint session...
Page 106 - December (1933) Constitution: 3 May 1947 Legal system: modeled after European civil law system with English-American influence; judicial review of legislative acts in the Supreme Court; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations Suffrage: 20 years of age; universal Executive branch...
Page 5 - Legal system: civil law system as modified by Communist legal theory; no judicial review of legislative acts: has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction National holiday: Great October Socialist Revolution, 7-8 November (1917...
Page 4 - Nationality: noun— Andorran(s); adjective— Andorran. Ethnic groups: Catalan stock; 61% Spanish. 30% Andorran, 6% French, 3% other. Languages: Catalan (official); many also speak some French and Castilian. Religions: virtually all Roman Catholic. Government Type: unique co-principality under formal sovereignty of president of France and Spanish bishop of Seo de Urgel, who are represented locally by officials called verguers. Independence: NA Constitution: none; some decrees, mostly custom and...