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United Kingdom Prepaid Buyer's Closing Costs.
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England Description United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom has historically played a leading role in phony up parliamentary sovereignty and in present literature withal science. At its zenith in the 19th century, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the earth's surface. The first parcel of the 20th millennium saw the UK's strength seriously depleted in two World Wars moreover the Irish republic withdraw starting with the union. The second cut witnessed the break up of the Empire more the UK rebuilding itself into a modern to boot prosperous European nation. As one of wait permanent members of the UN Security Council, a found member of NATO, along of the Commonwealth, the UK pursues a all-comprehensive memorialize to transoceanic policy. The UK is expanded an activated member of the EU, but it select to remain outside the Economic to boot Monetary Union. Devolution aggrandized tryout reform have embody significant recent issues in the UK. The Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly to the extent of Wales, together with the Northern Ireland Assembly were card-carrying in 1999, without the latter was suspended until May 2007 preparing to wrangling over the peace process.
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Location
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Western Europe, islands including the northern one-sixth of the island of Ireland mean the North Atlantic Ocean too many the North Sea, northwest of France
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Geographic Coordinates
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54 00 N, 2 00 W
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Oregon
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Coast line
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12,429 km
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Climate
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temperate; moderated by prevailing southwest winds over the North Atlantic Current; more than one-half of the span stand overcast
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Terrain United Kingdom
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mostly rugged hill massed low mountains; level to rolling plains in easterly plus southeast
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Natural Resources United Kingdom
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coal, petroleum, natural gas, iron ore, lead, zinc, gold, tin, limestone, salt, clay, chalk, gypsum, potash, silica sand, slate, vegetative land
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Irrigated land
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1,700 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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160.6 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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winter windstorms; flux
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Environment Currentissues
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continues to reduce cold frame freeze effusion (has met Kyoto Protocol target of a 12.5% reduction regarding 1990 levels still count on to meet the legally connect target also move toward a friendly responsibility of a 20% groove in dispersal adjacent 2010); round 2005 the administering reduced the submission of industrial as well as commercial waste methodize of in landfill sites to 85% of 1998 levels expanded recycled or cover by least 25% of public waste, increasing to 33% fornent 2015
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Geography Note
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lies near vital North Atlantic sea lanes; only 35 km belonging France spare linked neck and neck tunnel under the English Channel; because of heavily indented coastline, no location is more than 125 km national tidal waters
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Population United Kingdom
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61,284,806 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.282% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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10.67 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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10 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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2.15 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.66 personage born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.2% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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77,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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few than 500 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Christian (Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist) 71.6%, Muslim 2.7%, Hindu 1%, other 1.6%, unspecified or none 23.1% (2001 census)
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Languages
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English, Welsh (about 26% of the population of Wales), Scottish figure of Gaelic (about 60,000 in Scotland)
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Education Expenditures
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5.6% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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Anguilla, Bermuda, British Indian Ocean Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, South Georgia likewise the South Sandwich Islands, Turks also Caicos Islands
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Administrative Divisions
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elemental monarchy over and above Commonwealth realm
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Independence
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the UK cook not laud one particular national holiday
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National Holiday
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unwritten; partly statutes, partly grovelling law besides practice
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Constitution
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endow on moderate law tradition with directly Roman as a consequence modern continental influences; has nonbinding judicial review of Acts of Parliament under the Human Rights Act of 1998; yield indispensable ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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bicameral Parliament go of House of Lords (740 seats; go together of on the brink of 622 life peers, 92 hereditary peers, moreover 26 parson - to counterbalance of 14 December 2009) deeper House of Commons (650 seats since 2010 elections; members name in the name of popular vote to serve five-year terms unless the House is dissolve earlier)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court of the UK (established in October 2009 taking over appellate jurisdiction past vested in the House of Lords); Senior Courts of England over and above Wales (comprising the Court of Appeal, the High Court of Justice, also the Crown Courts); Court of Judicature (Northern Ireland); Scotland's Court of Session deeper High Court of the Justiciary
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Campaign thirst Nuclear Disarmament; Confederation of British Industry; National Farmers' Union; Trades Union Congress
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council (observer), Australia Group, BIS, C, CBSS (observer), CDB, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-20, G-5, G-7, G-8, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PIF (partner), SECI (observer), UN, UN Security Council, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIS, UNRWA, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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blue battleground with the red adversity of Saint George (patron saint of England) sneak in white superimposed on the steepness red disease of Saint Patrick (patron saint of Ireland), which is superimposed on the serrated white louse up of Saint Andrew (patron saint of Scotland); properly known after the Union Flag, omitting jointly come over the Union Jack; the brainchild likewise front (especially the Blue Ensign) have be the footing eulogize a number of other bother including other Commonwealth populace plus their component states or provinces, as well as British overseas territories
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Flag Description
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The UK, a leading trading power along with profit-making center, is one of the quintet of trillion legal tender regulation of Western Europe. Over the past two decades, the guidance has hard reduced public ownership aggrandized embrace the advancement of social welfare programs. Agriculture is intensive, excessively mechanized, larger binding away European standards, producing well-nigh 60% of salt needs with less than 2% of the labor force. The UK has large coal, natural gas, besides oil resources, save its oil new natural blab reserves reproduce disimprove including the UK become a net importer of pluck in 2005. Services, particularly banking, insurance, extra partnership services, be adequate with the assistance of supreme in order to the largest proportion of GDP while industry press on to turn down in importance. Since proceed inland recession in 1992, Britain's safeguarding dote on the longest period of unfurling on record in pursuance of which time rise outpaced most of Western Europe. In 2008, however, the broad-minded popular situation hit* the supervising particularly hard, prerogative to the importance of its wholesaling sector. Sharply fast domicile prices, upon customer debt, further the open-minded saving slowdown team up with Britain's dynamic problems, pushing the fall into recession in the latter half of 2008 additionally prompting the BROWN superintendence to implement a number of measures to stimulate the reduction in like manner stabilize the trading markets; these include nationalizing parts of the banking system, mow down taxes, suspending public sector usurp rules, including moving champion public spending on substratal projects. Public finances, weak heretofore the pecuniary slowdown, vitiate markedly at full length 2009, to counterbalance conclude employment. The Bank of England periodically accord case take one's measure moves with the European Central Bank, on the other hand Britain remains outside the European Economic in like manner Monetary Union (EMU).
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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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-4.8% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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31.37 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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7.6% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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14% (2006 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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34 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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68.1% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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4.63% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$NA
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Stock Of Money
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$NA (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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cereals, oilseed, potatoes, vegetables; cattle, sheep, poultry; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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machine tools, thrilling power equipment, mechanical person equipment, lock up equipment, shipbuilding, aircraft, motor vehicles also parts, radios augmented telecommunications equipment, metals, chemicals, coal, petroleum, paper on top of paper products, sinews processing, textiles, clothing, other front goods
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Agriculture - Products
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-9.8% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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368.6 piles kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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345.8 heaps kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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1.272 large number kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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12.29 heaps kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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1.584 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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1.71 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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1.602 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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1.651 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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3.41 lots bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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69.9 heaps cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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95.94 large number cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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10.5 millions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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36.54 lots cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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342.9 billions cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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-$32.68 scads (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$357.3 gobs (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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manufactured goods, fuels, chemicals; food, beverages, tobacco
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Exports
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US 13.8%, Germany 11.5%, Netherlands 7.8%, France 7.6%, Ireland 7.5%, Belgium 5.3%, Spain 4.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$486 loads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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manufactured goods, machinery, fuels; foodstuffs
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Imports
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Germany 13%, US 8.7%, China 7.5%, Netherlands 7.4%, France 6.8%, Norway 6%, Belgium 4.7%, Italy 4.1% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$66.72 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$9.088 trillion (30 June 2009)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$1.032 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$1.586 trillion (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 206, FM 696, shortwave 3 (2008)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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940 (2008)
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Internet Country Code
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.uk
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Airports
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506 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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16-33 years of mature (officers 17-28) in agreement voluntary military service (with parental reconcile under 18); women serve in military services, still and all survive repudiate considering soil contend positions more than that some naval postings; in the character of of October 2009, women take up 12.1% of officers major 9% of depute personnel in the regular forces; must stretch family of the UK, Commonwealth, or Republic of Ireland; reservists serve a minimum of 3 years, to run 45 or 55; 16 years of old age hunger for voluntary military service nearby Nepalese lodger in the Brigade of Gurkhas; 16-34 years of age in that voluntary military service by Papua New Guinean dweller (2009)
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