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BENIN (Continued)  Highways: 3,303 km total; 705 km paved, 2,598 km improved earth

Inland waterways: small sections, only important locally

Ports: 1 major (Cotonou), 1 minor

Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 9 total, 9 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; 4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: fair system of open wire and radio relay; 16,200 telephones (0.5 per 100 pop].); 2 AM stations, 1 FM station, and 1 TV station

DEFENSE FORCES
Military manpower: eligible 15-49, 1,579,000; of the 778,000 males 15-49, 393,000 are fit for military service; about 37,000 males and 38,000 females reach military age (18) annually; both sexes are liable for military service  

LAND
54.4 km$2$; 8% arable, 60% forested, 21% built on, wasteland, and other, 11% leased for air and naval bases

WATER
Limits of territorial waters (claimed): 3 nm (fishing 200 nm)

Coastline: 103 km

PEOPLE
Population: 72,000 (July 1982), average annual growth rate 2.6%

Nationality: noun—Bermudian(s); adjective—Bermudian

Ethnic divisions: approximately 61% black, 39% white

Religion: 37% Church of England, 19% other Protestant, 14% Catholic, 30% other

Language: English

Literacy: 98%

Labor force: 29,669 employed (1980)

GOVERNMENT
Official name: Bermuda

Type: British colony

Capital: Hamilton

Political subdivisions: 9 parishes

Legal system: English law

Branches: Executive Council (cabinet) appointed by governor, led by government leader; bicameral legislature with an appointed Legislative Council and a 40-member directly elected House of Assembly; Supreme Court

Government leaders: Governor Sir Richard POSNETT; Premier John William David SWAN

Suffrage: universal over age 21

Elections: at least once every five years; last general election, December 1980  22