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 St. Helena| Facts & Figures |
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| Status: Overseas territory Governor: David Hollamby (1999) Total area: 158 sq mi (410 sq km) Population (2006 est.): 7,502 (growth
rate: 0.6%); birth rate: 12.1/1000; infant mortality rate:
18.3/1000; life expectancy: 77.9; density per sq mi: 47 Capital (2003 est.): Jamestown, 1,500 Monetary unit: Saint Helena pound More Facts & Figures |
Language:
English
Ethnicity/race:
African descent 50%, white 25%, Chinese
25%
Economic summary: GDP/PPP:
(1998 est.): $18 million; per
capita $2,500.
Inflation:
3.2% (1997 est.).
Unemployment:
14% (1998 est.).
Exports:
$19 million
f.o.b. (2004 est.).
Imports:
$45 million c.i.f. (2004
est.).
Communications: Telephones:
main lines in use: 2,200
(2002).
Radio broadcast stations:
Saint Helena: AM 1, FM 1,
shortwave 0 Ascension: AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (2005).
Television
broadcast stations:
0 (3 television channels are received via
satellite and distributed by UHF) (2005). I
nternet Service
Providers (ISPs):
283 (2007).
Internet users:
1,000: note
- includes Ascension Island (2003).
Transportation: Highways:
total: 198 km (Saint Helena 138
km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 20 km) paved: 168 km (Saint
Helena 118 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) unpaved: 30
km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension 0 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km)
(2002).
Airports:
1 (2007).
St. Helena is a remote volcanic island in the South Atlantic about
1,100 mi (1,770 km) from the west coast of Africa. It is famous as
Napoléon's place of exile (1815–1821). The island was discovered in 1502
by João da Nova, a Spanish navigator in the service of Portugal. It was
taken for England in 1659 by the East India Company and was brought under
the direct government of the Crown in 1834. After the opening of the Suez
Canal in 1870, St. Helena's importance as a port of call diminished. About
two-thirds of the colony's budget is provided by the United Kingdom in the
form of a subsidy.
St. Helena has two dependencies: Ascension (34 sq mi; 88 sq km), an
island about 700 mi (1,127 km) northwest of St. Helena; and Tristan da
Cunha (40 sq mi; 104 sq km), a group of six islands about 1,500 mi (2,414
km) south-southwest of St. Helena.
See also
Encyclopedia:
Saint Helena
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