_#_Telecommunications: fully automatic telephone system; 9,500 telephones; direct radio relay link with Martinique and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; interisland troposcatter link to Barbados; stations—4 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV (cable)

_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, Coast Guard

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 38,050; NA fit for military service

_#Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP % @Saint Pierre and Miquelon (territorial collectivity of France) *Geography #_Total area: 242 km2; land area: 242 km2; includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 1.5 times the size of Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 120 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm