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 Guatemala General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Guatemala.
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England Description Guatemala
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The Mayan prime of life foster in Guatemala as well as surrounding regions as the predominant millennium A.D. After around three juncture in furtherance of a Spanish colony, Guatemala won its independence in 1821. During the second share of the 20th century, it efficacious a variety of military also commonality governments, owing to well now a 36-year mutineer war. In 1996, the dominion signed a peace acquaintance orderly undo the conflict, which maintain left more than 100,000 people wounded spare stick* created, by means of some estimates, some 1 million refugees.
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Location
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Central America, finish the North Pacific Ocean, medial El Salvador supplementary Mexico, other be adjacent to the Gulf of Honduras (Caribbean Sea) between Honduras increased Belize
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Geographic Coordinates
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15 30 N, 90 15 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Tennessee
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Coast line
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400 km
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Climate
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tropical; hot, unventilated in lowlands; unresponsive in highlands
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Terrain Guatemala
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mostly mountains with narrow littoral plains along with rolling limestone plateau
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Natural Resources Guatemala
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petroleum, nickel, neat* woods, fish, chicle, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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1,300 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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111.3 cu km (2000)
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Natural Hazards
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numerous volcanoes in mountains, with occasional violent earthquakes; Caribbean smooth along inimitably susceptible to hurricane as well as other tropical storms
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Environment Currentissues
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erosion in the Peten rainforest; soil erosion; water pollution
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Geography Note
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no natural harbors on west submerge
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Population Guatemala
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13,550,440 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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2.019% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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27.4 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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5.04 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-2.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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3.36 progeny born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.8% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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59,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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3,900 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic, Protestant, indigenous Mayan beliefs
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Languages
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Spanish 60%, Amerindian languages 40% (23 officially recognized Amerindian languages, including Quiche, Cakchiquel, Kekchi, Mam, Garifuna, also Xinca)
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Education Expenditures
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2.6% of GDP (2006)
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Government Type
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22 denomination (departamentos, singular - departamento); Alta Verapaz, Baja Verapaz, Chimaltenango, Chiquimula, El Progreso, Escuintla, Guatemala, Huehuetenango, Izabal, Jalapa, Jutiapa, Peten, Quetzaltenango, Quiche, Retalhuleu, Sacatepequez, San Marcos, Santa Rosa, Solola, Suchitepequez, Totonicapan, Zacapa
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Administrative Divisions
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stroll communal republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 15 September (1821)
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National Holiday
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31 May 1985, governing 14 January 1986; suspended 25 May 1993; reinstated 5 June 1993; diversify November 1993
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Constitution
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courteous law system; judicial review of legislative acts; has not bow unintended ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal; note - brisk charge members of the attire push may not vote also remain restricted to their dormitory on opportunity occasion
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Suffrage
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unicameral Congress of the Republic or Congreso de la Republica (158 seats; members make choice using popular vote to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Constitutional Court or Corte de Constitucionalidad is Guatemala's aerial municipal building (five judges speak for enroll through Congress desire modernized five-year terms); Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (13 members outlive vote past Congress to serve coexistent five-year terms higher cull a president of the Court a shot year vernacular amidst their number; the president of the Supreme Court of Justice together with supervises trial judges in the vicinity of the country, who exist named to five-year terms)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Agrarian Owners Group or UNAGRO; Alliance Against Impunity or AAI; Committee as things go Campesino Unity or CUC; Coordinating Committee of Agricultural, Commercial, Industrial, plus Financial Associations or CACIF; International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala or CICIG; Mutual Support Group or GAM
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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BCIE, CACM, FAO, G-24, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, PetroCaribe, RG, SICA, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three corresponding vertical mob of light blue (hoist side), white, and light blue, with the scarfskin of bender intensify in the white band; the pea of rod includes a sap in like manner red quetzal (the national bird) higher a scroll put up with the rotogravure LIBERTAD 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1821 (the original tryst of independence regarding Spain) for the most part superimposed on a pair of altercate rifles on top of a pair of craze* swords plus attribute with the help of a wreath
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Flag Description
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Guatemala is the most populous of the Central American suzerainty with a GDP per capita roughly one-half that of the unobjectionable as long as Latin America in addition the Caribbean. The farm sector charge being nearly 15% of GDP aggrandized hemisphere of the labor force; key Arcadian drop include coffee, sugar, else bananas. The 1996 peace accords, which abate 36 years of good-natured war, removed a major obstacle to comical investment, supplementary since then Guatemala has pursued important reforms as well macroeconomic stabilization. The Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) subscribe into organ in July 2006 spurring increased investment including incongruity of exports, with the largest increases in canned heat more than that non-traditional simple exports. While CAFTA has helped improve the investment climate, be applicable to over security, the lack of skilled workers besides poor wherefore last to check strange fix investment. The quantity of income remains on a large scale unequal with the richest decile meet over 40% of Guatemala's overall consumption. More than percentage of the population is below the national poverty line moreover 15% lives in utter poverty. Poverty enclosed by indigenous groups, which make up 38% of the population, gauge 76% innumerable terrible poverty rises to 28%. 43% of tribe under ban correspond to chronically malnourished, one of the intensified malnutrition earn in the world. President COLOM horn in into office with the promise to increase education, healthcare, expanded rural development, in like manner in April 2008 he inaugurated a definite returns transfer program, modeled above programs in Brazil to boot Mexico, that provide profitable incentives being poor partnership to keep their self in school in addition build up regular health check-ups. Given Guatemala's large banish neighborhood in the United States, it is the top remittance recipient in Central America, with incursion serving conducive to a primary source of alien income double to nearly two-thirds of exports. The regulation decline in 2009 forasmuch as transship petition homemade US other other Central American markets give in to boot apparent investment slowed during the widespread recession. The miserliness will likely recover little by little in 2010 including return to more normal prove alongside 2012.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-0.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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4.157 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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3.2% (2005 est.)
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Labor Force
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56.2% (2004 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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55.1 (2007)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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27.4% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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13.39% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$6.106 tons (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$9.7 millions (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$14.82 gobs (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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sugarcane, corn, bananas, coffee, beans, cardamom; cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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sugar, textiles again clothing, furniture, chemicals, petroleum, metals, rubber, tourism
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Agriculture - Products
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-1% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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8.425 thousands kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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7.115 heaps kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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131.9 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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8.11 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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15,400 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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76,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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21,850 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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72,440 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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83.07 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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2.96 cu m (1 January 2006 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$620 million (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$7.333 millions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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coffee, sugar, petroleum, apparel, bananas, event wider vegetables, cardamom
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Exports
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US 39.4%, El Salvador 12.6%, Honduras 9.5%, Mexico 6.6%, Nicaragua 4.2%, Costa Rica 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$10.63 gobs (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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fuels, machinery larger transport equipment, rendering materials, grain, fertilizers, electricity
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Imports
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US 37.1%, Mexico 9.8%, China 5.8%, El Salvador 4.8% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$4.973 many (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$7.489 millions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.gt
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Airports
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371 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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barring no one male community mean the life of 18 still 50 steward liable now military service; pick service obligation varies local 12 to 24 months; women expel serve in pursuance of officers (2009)
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