1. Tromelin Island Category: Geography - Land use (%): arable land: 0%; permanent crops: 0%; other: 100% (grasses; scattered bushes) (2005)


2. Dhekelia Category: Geography - Area (sq km): total: 130.8 sq km; note: area surrounds three Cypriot enclaves


3. Guatemala Category: Government - Judicial branch: Constitutional Court or Corte de Constitucionalidad is Guatemala's highest court (five judges are elected for concurrent five-year terms); Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (13 members serve concurrent five-year terms and elect a president of the Court each year from among their number; the president of the Supreme Court of Justice also supervises trial judges around the country, who are named to five-year terms)


4. Niue Category: Government - Legal system: English common law; note - Niue is self-governing, with the power to make its own laws


5. Laos Category: Military - Military - note: serving one of the world's least developed countries, the Lao People's Armed Forces (LPAF) is small, poorly funded, and ineffectively resourced; its mission focus is border and internal security, primarily in countering ethnic Hmong insurgent groups; together with the Lao People's Revolutionary Party and the government, the Lao People's Army (LPA) is the third pillar of state machinery, and as such is expected to suppress political and civil unrest and similar national emergencies, but the LPA also has upgraded skills to respond to avian influenza outbreaks; there is no perceived external threat to the state and the LPA maintains strong ties with the neighboring Vietnamese military (2008)

Antigua and Barbuda Facts Info Stuff (AG):

1. Zambia Category: Transportation - Ports and terminals: Mpulungu


2. Yemen Category: Geography - Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm; contiguous zone: 24 nm; exclusive economic zone: 200 nm; continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin


3. Germany Category: Communications - Radio broadcast stations: AM 51, FM 787, shortwave 4 (1998)


4. Maldives Category: Economy - Electricity - production (kWh): 230 million kWh (2007 estimate)


5. Guam Category: Communications - Telephone system: general assessment: modern system, integrated with US facilities for direct dialing, including free use of 800 numbers; domestic: modern digital system, including cellular mobile service and local access to the Internet; international: country code - 1-671; major landing point for submarine cables between Asia and the US (Guam is a trans-Pacific communications hub for major carriers linking the US and Asia); satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Pacific Ocean)

1. Singapore Category: Economy - Electricity - consumption (kWh): 37.42 billion kWh (2007)


2. Serbia Category: Government - Legal system: based on civil law system; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction


3. Bolivia Category: Economy - Imports: .782 billion f.o.b. (2008 estimate)


4. Macedonia Category: Economy - Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $NA


5. French Southern and Antarctic Lands Category: Geography - Environment - current issues: introduction of foreign species on Iles Crozet has caused severe damage to the original ecosystem; overfishing of Patagonian Toothfish around Iles Crozet and Iles Kerguelen