1. American Samoa Category: People - Median age (years): total: 22.8 years; male: 22.7 years; female: 23 years (2008 estimate)


2. Nepal Category: Transportation - Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 37; 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1; 914 to 1,523 m: 6; under 914 m: 30 (2007)


3. Central African Republic Category: Government - National holiday: Republic Day, 1 December (1958)


4. Indonesia Category: Transportation - Pipelines (km): condensate 735 km; condensate/gas 73 km; gas 5,797 km; oil 5,721 km; oil/gas/water 12 km; refined products 1,370 km; water 44 km (2008)


5. French Guiana Category: Government - Executive branch: chief of state: President Jacques CHIRAC of France (since 17 May 1995), represented by Prefect Jean-Pierre LAFLAQUIERE (since 19 July 2006); head of government: President of the General Council Pierre DESERT (since 26 March 2004); President of the Regional Council Antoine KARAM (since 22 March 1992); cabinet: NA; elections: French president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; prefect appointed by the French president on the advice of the French Ministry of Interior; presidents of the General and Regional Councils are appointed by the members of those councils

Ghana Facts Info Stuff (GH):

1. Zambia Category: Economy - Electricity - exports (kWh): 255 million kWh (2006)


2. South Africa Category: Transnational Issues - Trafficking in persons: current situation: South Africa is a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children trafficked for forced labor and sexual exploitation; women and girls are trafficked internally - and occasionally to European and Asian countries - for sexual exploitation; women from other African countries are trafficked to South Africa and, less frequently, onward to Europe for sexual exploitation; men and boys are trafficked from neighboring countries for forced agricultural labor; Asian and Eastern European women are trafficked to South Africa for debt-bonded sexual exploitation; tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - South Africa is on the Tier 2 Watch List for a fourth consecutive year for its failure to show increasing efforts to address trafficking; the government provided inadequate data in 2007 on trafficking crimes investigated or prosecuted, or on resulting convictions or sentences; it also did not provide information on its efforts to protect victims of trafficking; the country continues to deport and/or prosecute suspected foreign victims without providing appropriate protective services (2008)


3. Brunei Category: Geography - Area (sq km): total: 5,770 sq km; land: 5,270 sq km; water: 500 sq km


4. Singapore Category: Geography - Geographic coordinates: 1 22 N, 103 48 E


5. Lithuania Category: People - Life expectancy at birth (years): total population: 74.67 years; male: 69.72 years; female: 79.89 years (2008 estimate)

1. Lithuania Category: Economy - Electricity - exports (kWh): 7.217 billion kWh (2007 estimate)


2. Guinea-Bissau Category: Government - Capital: name: Bissau; geographic coordinates: 11 51 N, 15 35 W; time difference: UTC 0 (5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)


3. Singapore Category: Economy - Agriculture - products: rubber, copra, fruit, orchids, vegetables; poultry, eggs; fish, ornamental fish


4. Suriname Category: People - Population: 475,996 (July 2008 estimate)


5. Mongolia Category: Economy - Exchange rates: togrog/tugriks (MNT) per US dollar - 1,170 (2007), 1,165 (2006), 1,205 (2005), 1,185.3 (2004), 1,146.5 (2003)