NA

Internet country code:

.tc

Internet hosts:

2,352 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

14 (2000)

Internet users:

Transportation
Turks and Caicos Islands

Airports:

8 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 2 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 2 under 914 m: 2 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 121 km paved: 24 km unpaved: 97 km (2003)

Merchant marine:

registered in other countries: 1 (Panama 1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Grand Turk, Providenciales

Military
Turks and Caicos Islands

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 222 female: 214 (2008 est.)

Military - note:

defense is the responsibility of the UK

Transnational Issues
Turks and Caicos Islands

Disputes - international:

have received Haitians fleeing economic and civil disorder

Illicit drugs:

transshipment point for South American narcotics destined for the US and Europe

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

@Tuvalu

Introduction
Tuvalu

Background:

In 1974, ethnic differences within the British colony of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands caused the Polynesians of the Ellice Islands to vote for separation from the Micronesians of the Gilbert Islands. The following year, the Ellice Islands became the separate British colony of Tuvalu. Independence was granted in 1978. In 2000, Tuvalu negotiated a contract leasing its Internet domain name ".tv" for $50 million in royalties over a 12-year period.

Geography
Tuvalu

Location:

Oceania, island group consisting of nine coral atolls in the South
Pacific Ocean, about one-half of the way from Hawaii to Australia

Geographic coordinates: