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World Country Facts:

  1. Cote d'Ivoire Category: People - Population below poverty line (%): 42% (2006 estimate)

  2. Greece Category: Transportation - Merchant marine: total: 869; by type: bulk carrier 260, cargo 66, carrier 1, chemical tanker 66, combination ore/oil 2, container 45, liquefied gas 10, passenger 13, passenger/cargo 115, petroleum tanker 274, roll on/roll off 15, specialized tanker 2; foreign-owned: 64 (Belgium 16, Cyprus 7, Turkey 1, UK 32, US 8); registered in other countries: 2,357 (Antigua and Barbuda 3, Bahamas 209, Barbados 12, Belize 1, Bermuda 9, Brazil 1, Cambodia 3, Cayman Islands 16, China 2, Comoros 6, Cyprus 259, Denmark 4, Dominica 10, Egypt 8, Georgia 5, Gibraltar 6, Honduras 4, Hong Kong 22, Isle of Man 50, Italy 6, Jamaica 6, North Korea 1, Lebanon 2, Liberia 358, Maldives 1, Malta 452, Marshall Islands 269, Norway 3, Panama 510, Philippines 4, Portugal 4, Russia 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis 3, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 71, Sao Tome and Principe 1, Saudi Arabia 3, Sierra Leone 1, Singapore 15, Slovakia 2, Turkey 1, UAE 3, Uruguay 1, Vanuatu 1, Venezuela 3, unknown 5) (2008)

  3. Namibia Category: Geography - Area (sq km): total: 825,418 sq km; land: 825,418 sq km; water: 0 sq km

  4. New Caledonia Category: Government - Independence: none (overseas territory of France); note - a referendum on independence was held in 1998 but did not pass; a new referendum is scheduled for 2014

  5. Saint Martin Category: Transportation - Airports: 1

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  1. Greenland Category: People - Life expectancy at birth (years): total population: 69.46 years; male: 66.81 years; female: 72.25 years (2008 estimate)

  2. French Southern and Antarctic Lands Category: Government - Dependency status: overseas territory of France since 1955; administered from Paris by Administrateur Superieur Eric PILLOTON (since 10 April 2007)

  3. Gibraltar Category: Government - Administrative divisions: none (overseas territory of the UK)

  4. Trinidad and Tobago Category: Economy - Currency (code): Trinidad and Tobago dollar (TTD)

  5. Vanuatu Category: Economy - GDP - per capita (PPP): ,700 (2008 estimate)

United Kingdom Facts Info Stuff (GB):

United Kingdom Latitude Facts: 52.8420720840536 and United Kingdom Longitude Facts: -1.88895198829629

More World Country Facts:

  1. Reunion Category: Transportation - Airports: 2 (2006)

  2. Vietnam Category: Government - Country name: conventional long form: Socialist Republic of Vietnam; conventional short form: Vietnam; local long form: Cong Hoa Xa Hoi Chu Nghia Viet Nam; local short form: Viet Nam; abbreviation: SRV

  3. Slovenia Category: Economy - Exports - partners (%): Germany 18.7%, Italy 12.5%, Croatia 8%, Austria 7.5%, France 5.9%, Russia 4.4% (2007)

  4. Ukraine Category: Economy - Industrial production growth rate (%): 5% (2008 estimate)

  5. Hong Kong Category: People - Population below poverty line (%): NA%

United Kingdom Regions are: Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Angus Antrim Ards Argyll and Bute Armagh Ballymena Ballymoney Banbridge Barking and Dagenham Barnet Barnsley Bath and North East Somerset Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Blackburn with Darwen Blackpool Blaenau Gwent Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Forest Bradford Brent Bridgend Brighton and Hove Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Caerphilly Calderdale Cambridgeshire Camden Cardiff Carmarthenshire Carrickfergus Castlereagh Ceredigion Cheshire Clackmannanshire Clwyd Coleraine Conwy Cookstown Cornwall Coventry Craigavon Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Derry Devon Doncaster Dorset Down Dudley Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City Dungannon Durham Ealing East Ayrshire East Dunbartonshire East Lothian East Renfrewshire East Riding of Yorkshire East Sussex Edinburgh Eilean Siar Enfield Essex Falkirk Fermanagh Fife Flintshire Gateshead Glasgow City Gloucestershire Greater London Greenwich Gwynedd Hackney Halton Hammersmith and Fulham Hampshire Haringey Harrow Hartlepool Havering Herefordshire Hertford Highland Hillingdon Hounslow Inverclyde Isle of Anglesey Isle of Wight Islington Kensington and Chelsea Kent Kingston upon Hull Kingston upon Thames Kirklees Knowsley Lambeth Lancashire Larne Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Limavady Lincolnshire Lisburn Liverpool London Luton Magherafelt Manchester Medway Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Merton Middlesbrough Midlothian Milton Keynes Monmouthshire Moray Moyle Neath Port Talbot Newcastle upon Tyne Newham Newport Newry and Mourne Newtownabbey Norfolk North Ayrshire North Down North East Lincolnshire North Lanarkshire North Lincolnshire North Somerset North Tyneside North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northumberland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Omagh Orkney Oxfordshire Pembrokeshire Perth and Kinross Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Powys Reading Redbridge Redcar and Cleveland Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Richmond upon Thames Rochdale Rotherham Rutland Salford Scottish Borders Sefton Sheffield Shetland Islands Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Gloucestershire South Lanarkshire South Tyneside South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St. Helens Staffordshire Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Strabane Strathclyde Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sutton Swansea Swindon Tameside Telford and Wrekin Thurrock Torbay Torfaen Tower Hamlets Trafford Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Walsall Waltham Forest Wandsworth Warrington Warwickshire West Berkshire West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wiltshire Windsor and Maidenhead Wirral Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wrexham York

Various World Country Facts:

  1. Johnston Atoll Category: Geography - Land use (%): arable land: 0%; permanent crops: 0%; other: 100% (2005)

  2. Malta Category: Economy - GDP (official exchange rate): .584 billion (2008 estimate)

  3. United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges Category: Geography - Elevation extremes (m): lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m; highest point: Baker Island, unnamed location - 8 m; Howland Island, unnamed location - 3 m; Jarvis Island, unnamed location - 7 m; Johnston Atoll, Sand Island - 10 m; Kingman Reef, unnamed location - less than 2 m; Midway Islands, unnamed location - 13 m; Palmyra Atoll, unnamed location - 3 m

  4. Portugal Category: Government - Country name: conventional long form: Portuguese Republic; conventional short form: Portugal; local long form: Republica Portuguesa; local short form: Portugal

  5. Sri Lanka Category: People - Literacy (%): definition: age 15 and over can read and write; total population: 90.7%; male: 92.3%; female: 89.1% (2001 census)



Source: CIA - The World Factbook