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Currency:
  1 CFA franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates:
  Communaute Financiere Africaine francs (CFAF) per US$1 - 274.06 (January
  1993), 264.69 (1992), 282.11 (1991), 272.26 (1990), 319.01 (1989), 297.85
  (1988)
Fiscal year:
  calendar year

*Cote d'Ivoire, Communications

Railroads:
  660 km (Burkina border to Abidjan, 1.00-meter gauge, single track, except 25
  km Abidjan-Anyama section is double track)
Highways:
  46,600 km total; 3,600 km paved; 32,000 km gravel, crushed stone, laterite,
  and improved earth; 11,000 km unimproved
Inland waterways:
  980 km navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal lagoons
Ports:
  Abidjan, San-Pedro
Merchant marine:
  7 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 71,945 GRT/ 90,684 DWT; includes 1 oil
  tanker, 1 chemical tanker, 3 container, 2 roll-on/roll-off
Airports:
 total:
  42
 usable:
  37
 with permanent-surface runways:
  7
 with runways over 3,659 m:
  0
 with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
  3
 with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
  15
Telecommunications:
  well-developed by African standards but operating well below capacity;
  consists of open-wire lines and radio relay microwave links; 87,700
  telephones; broadcast stations - 3 AM, 17 FM, 13 TV, 1 Atlantic Ocean and 1
  Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station; 2 coaxial submarine cables

*Cote d'Ivoire, Defense Forces

Branches:
  Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary Gendarmerie, Republican Guard, Military
  Fire Group
Manpower availability:
  males age 15-49 3,131,016; fit for military service 1,624,401; reach
  military age (18) annually 145,827 (1993 est.)
Defense expenditures:
  exchange rate conversion - $200 million, 2.3% of GDP (1988)