Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1.56 billion (1997 est.)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.5% (1997 est.)
Transnational Issues
Disputes - international: none
Illicit drugs: illicit cultivation of opium poppy and cannabis continues in spite of increased government eradication; major supplier of heroin and marijuana to the US market; continues as the primary transshipment country for US-bound cocaine from South America; increasingly involved in the production and distribution of methamphetamines ______________________________________________________________________
MICRONESIA, FEDERATED STATES OF
States of]
@Micronesia, Federated States of:Geography
Location: Oceania, island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia
Geographic coordinates: 6 55 N, 158 15 E
Map references: Oceania