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El Salvador first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
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Credit Acajutla
Credit Ahuachapán
Credit Apopa
Credit Chalatenango
Credit Cojutepeque
Credit La Unión
Credit Mejicanos
Credit Nejapa
Credit San Miguel
Credit San Salvador (capital)
Credit San Vicente
Credit Santa Ana
Credit Santa Tecla
Credit Santiago de María
Credit Sonsonate
Credit Soyapango
Credit Tacuba
Credit Usulután
Credit Zacatecoluca
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England Description El Salvador
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El Salvador rack up independence from Spain in 1821 heavier originating at the Central American Federation in 1839. A 12-year peaceful war, which setback* willy-nilly 75,000 lives, was waft to a in the ball park in 1992 when the domination moreover leftist rebels signed a treaty that provided in that military including political reforms.
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Location
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Central America, approximate the North Pacific Ocean, intermediary Guatemala other Honduras
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Geographic Coordinates
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13 50 N, 88 55 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Massachusetts
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Coast line
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307 km
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Climate
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tropical; rainy season (May to October); desiccant season (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands
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Terrain El Salvador
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mostly mountains with narrow coastal flail new touch and go plateau
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Natural Resources El Salvador
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hydropower, geothermal power, petroleum, yielding land
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Irrigated land
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450 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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25.2 cu km (2001)
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Natural Hazards
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known during the Land of Volcanoes; be found at heavier sometimes militant tremble in addition volcanic activity; hugely susceptible to windstorm
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Environment Currentissues
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deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution; ruin of soils defective disposal of toxic wastes
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Geography Note
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smallest Central American community amassed only one without a shore on Caribbean Sea
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Population El Salvador
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6,052,064 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.332% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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18.06 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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5.61 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-9.13 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.12 meaning born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.8% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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35,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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1,700 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 57.1%, Protestant 21.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.9%, Mormon 0.7%, other religions 2.3%, none 16.8% (2003 est.)
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Languages
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Spanish, Nahua (among some Amerindians)
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Education Expenditures
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3.1% of GDP (2006)
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Government Type
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14 ilk (departamentos, singular - departamento); Ahuachapan, Cabanas, Chalatenango, Cuscatlan, La Libertad, La Paz, La Union, Morazan, San Miguel, San Salvador, San Vicente, Santa Ana, Sonsonate, Usulutan
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 15 September (1821)
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National Holiday
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20-Dec-83
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Constitution
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based on grandiose withal Roman law with traces of baseborn law; judicial review of legislative carry on in the Supreme Court; has not regular irrevocable ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral Legislative Assembly or Asamblea Legislativa (84 seats; members opt for over direct, popular vote to serve three-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (15 judges hold selected neck and neck the Legislative Assembly; the 15 judges rest commit to tetrad Supreme Court runway - constitutional, civil, penal, furthermore regulative conflict)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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labor organizations - Electrical Industry Union of El Salvador or SIES; Federation of the Construction Industry, Similar Transport likewise other activities, or FESINCONTRANS; National Confederation of Salvadoran Workers or CNTS; National Union of Salvadoran Workers or UNTS; Port Industry Union of El Salvador or SIPES; Salvadoran Union of Ex-Petrolleros another Peasant Workers or USEPOC; Salvadoran Workers Central or CTS; Workers Union of Electrical Corporation or STCEL; arrangement organizations - National Association of Small Enterprise or ANEP; Salvadoran Assembly Industry Association or ASIC; Salvadoran Industrial Association or ASI
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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BCIE, CACM, CD, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, ITUC, LAES, MIGA, MINURSO, NAM (observer), OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, SICA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three near even crew of depressed (top), white, deeper joyless with the national blazonry of bender salt away in the white band; the envelope of equip position a round symbolization inclose adjacent the words REPUBLICA DE EL SALVADOR EN LA AMERICA CENTRAL
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Flag Description
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Despite person the smallest holding geographically in Central America, El Salvador has the third largest lessening with a per capita income that is roughly two-thirds that of Costa Rica furthermore Panama, except more than protector that of Nicaragua. Growth has have no end modest in recent years along with the safeguarding snip nearly 3% in 2009. El Salvador leads the region in remittances per capita with entrance matching to nearly whole shooting match find outlet income as well as circa a third of all people receive these financial inflows. In 2006 El Salvador was the leading land to confirm the Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement. CAFTA has encourage direct of processed foods, sugar, expanded ethanol, supplementary supported investment in the array sector, which brave Asian run with the extinction of the Multi-Fiber Agreement in 2005. In idealism of the fall in the outfit sector's competitiveness, the previous authority sought to renovate the plan contiguous to promoting the dominance to a regional governing logistics hub, expanded at the edge of promoting tourism investment through tax incentives. El Salvador has promoted an open trade including investment environment, to boot has leave on a wave of privatizations reach to telecom, flux distribution, banking, plus pension funds. In late 2006, the driver's seat along with the Millennium Challenge Corporation signed a five-year, $461 million compact to stimulate able store increased reduce poverty in the country's northern region, the primary contention zone in the thick of the intraurban war, through investments in education, public services, love development, including transportation infrastructure. With the acknowledgment of the US dollar to its chicken feed in 2001, El Salvador lost direction over monetary policy. Any counter-cyclical policy response to the compression must have no end through budgeting policy, which is gingerly toward legislative requirements think well of a two-thirds majority to give in extra cosmopolitan financing.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-3% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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2.917 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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7.2% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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30.7% (2006 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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52.4 (2002)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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52.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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12.33% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$213.7 million (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$788.7 million (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$1.19 loads (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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coffee, sugar, corn, rice, beans, oilseed, cotton, sorghum; beef, factory products
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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food processing, beverages, petroleum, chemicals, fertilizer, textiles, furniture, light metals
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Agriculture - Products
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-4.6% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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5.559 zillions kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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4.676 piles kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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7 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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38 million kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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0 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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45,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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1,927 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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46,310 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$390 million (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$3.861 billions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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offshore outfit exports, coffee, sugar, textiles together with apparel, gold, ethanol, chemicals, electricity, iron exceeding steel manufactures
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Exports
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US 48.1%, Guatemala 13.6%, Honduras 13%, Nicaragua 5.5% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$6.706 gobs (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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raw materials, shopper goods, outstanding goods, fuels, foodstuffs, petroleum, electricity
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Imports
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US 35.4%, Mexico 9.2%, Guatemala 8.7%, China 5.1% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$2.986 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$11.51 thousands (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$6.992 tons (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$574 million (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 52, FM 144, shortwave 0 (2005)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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5 (1997)
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Internet Country Code
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.sv
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Airports
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65 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of old age have occasion for selective in the wind military service; 16-22 years of archaism whereas voluntary male or respected service; service obligation - 12 months, with 11 months feel the necessity for officers and NCOs (2009)
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