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WALLIS AND FUTUNA (Continued) 

ECONOMY
Agriculture: dominated by coconut production with subsistence crops of yams, taro, bananas

Electric power: 1,000 kW capacity (1981); 1 million kWh produced (1981), 133 kWh per capita

Exports: negligible

Imports: $3.4 million (1977); largely foodstuffs and some equipment associated with development programs

Aid: (1978) France, European Development Fund, $2.6 million

Monetary conversion rate: 75 Colonial Franc Pacifique (CFP)=US$1

COMMUNICATIONS
Highways: 100 km of improved road on Uvea Island (1977)

Ports: 2 minor

Airfields: 2 total, 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways, 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: 148 telephones (1.6 per 100 popl.)

DEFENSE FORCES
No formal defense structure; no regular armed forces

  ==WESTERN SAHARA (formerly Spanish Sahara)==

LAND
266,770 km$2$, nearly all desert

Land boundaries: 2,086 km

WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 6 nm (fishing 12 nm)

Coastline: 1,110 km

PEOPLE
Population: 86,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 1.8%

Nationality: noun—Saharan(s), Moroccan(s); adjective—Saharan, Moroccan

Ethnic divisions: Arab, Berber, and Negro nomads

Religion: Muslim

Languages: Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic

Literacy: among Moroccans, probably nearly 20%; among Saharans, perhaps 5%

Labor force: 12,000; 50% animal husbandry and subsistence farming, 50% other

Organized labor: none

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Western Sahara

Type: legal status of territory and question of sovereignty unresolved—territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976, with Morocco acquiring the northern two-thirds including the rich phosphate reserves at Bu Craa. Mauritania, under pressure from the Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to its portion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortly thereafter and has since asserted administrative control there; OAU-sponsored referendum proposed to resolve situation while guerrilla activities continue into 1982  254