Martinique

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name: Fort-de-France geographic coordinates: 14 36 N, 61 05 W time difference: UTC-4 (1 hour ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)

chief of state: President Jacques CHIRAC of France (since 17 May 1995); Prefect Yves DASSONVILLE (since 14 January 2004); note - took office 8 February 2004 head of government: President of the General Council Claude LISE (since 22 March 1992); President of the Regional Council Alfred MARIE-JEANNE (since NA March 1998) cabinet: NA elections: French president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; prefect appointed by the French president on the advice of the French Ministry of Interior; the presidents of the General and Regional Councils are elected by the members of those councils for six-year terms

unicameral General Council or Conseil General (45 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms) and a unicameral Regional Council or Conseil Regional (41 seats; members are elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms) elections: General Council - last held March 2000 (next to be held in 2006); Regional Council - last held on 28 March 2004 (next to be held by March 2010) election results: General Council - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - left-wing candidates 13, PPM 11, RPR 6, right-wing candidates 5, PCM 3, UDF 3, PMS 2, independents 2; note - the PPM won a plurality; Regional Council (second round) - percent of vote by party - MIM 53.8%, PPM 30.6%; seats by party - MIM 28, PPM 9, other 4 note: Martinique elects 2 seats to the French Senate; elections last held September 2004 (next to be held September 2008); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - PPM 1, left-wing candidate 1; Martinique also elects 4 seats to the French National Assembly; elections last held, first round - 9 June 2002, second round - 16 June 2002 (next to be held not later than June 2007); results - percent of vote by party - NA; seats by party - UMP-RPR 1, PMS 1, MIM 1, left-wing candidate 1 (candidacy of the left-wing candidate was found invalid by the Constitutional Council; new elections will be called)

Court of Appeal or Cour d'Appel

4 October 1958 (French Constitution)

UPU, WCL, WFTU

no regular military forces; Gendarmerie

defense is the responsibility of France

$6.117 billion (2003 est.)

$14,400 (2003 est.)

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$404.2 million f.o.b. (2002)

$2.307 billion c.i.f. (2002)

27.2% (1998)

revenues: $317.5 million expenditures: $317.5 million; including capital expenditures of $140 million (1996)

construction, rum, cement, oil refining, sugar, tourism

pineapples, avocados, bananas, flowers, vegetables, sugarcane

436,131 (July 2006 est.)

0.72% (2006 est.)

0-14 years: 22.1% (male 48,988/female 47,525) 15-64 years: 67.3% (male 147,082/female 146,470) 65 years and over: 10.6% (male 20,791/female 25,275) (2006 est.)

13.74 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)

6.48 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)

-0.03 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)

total population: 79.18 years male: 79.5 years female: 78.85 years (2006 est.)

African and African-white-Indian mixture 90%, white 5%, East Indian and Chinese less than 5%

French, Creole patois

Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant 10.5%, Muslim 0.5%, Hindu 0.5%, other 3.5% (1997)

definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 97.7% male: 97.4% female: 98.1% (2003 est.)

coastal scenery and beaches, cultivable land

0 cu m (2003 est.)

1.205 billion kWh (2003)

transshipment point for cocaine and marijuana bound for the US and Europe

none

2 (2006)

total: 2,105 km (including 261 km of expressways) (2000)

319,900 (2002)

107,000 (2005)