WALLIS AND FUTUNA edit
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LAND edit
About 207 km2
WATER edit
Limits of territorial waters: 12 nm (fishing 200 nm; exclusive economic zone 200 nm)
Coastline: about 129 km
PEOPLE edit
Population: 11,000 (July 1982) average annual growth rate 3.0%
Nationality: noun—Wallisian(s), Futunan(s), or Wallis and Futuna Islanders; adjective—Wallisian, Futunan, or Wallis and Futuna Islander
Ethnic divisions: almost entirely Polynesian
Religion: largely Roman Catholic
GOVERNMENT edit
Official name: Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands
Type: overseas territory of France
Capital: Matu Utu
Political subdivisions: 3 districts
Branches: territorial assembly of 20 members; popular election of one deputy to National Assembly in Paris and one senator
Government leaders: Superior Administrator Pierre ISSAC; President of Territorial Assembly Robert THIL
Suffrage: universal adult
Elections: every five years
ECONOMY edit
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 edit
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 edit
No formal defense structure; no regular armed forces