Country name: St. Vincent and the Grenadines (VC).  Nationality: Saint Vincentian(s) or Vincentian(s).  Languages: English, French patois.  Climate: tropical; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November). Capital: Kingstown. Population: 17,000. Population: 120,519 (July 1999 est.).  Coastline: 84 km.  Terrain: volcanic, mountainous.

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Area: 323.0 sq km (150.3 sq miles), St Vincent: 344 sq km (133 sq miles), Grenadines: 45.3 sq km (17.3 sq miles).

Climate: tropical; little seasonal temperature variation; rainy season (May to November).

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Time: 1 hour ahead of Eastern Standard US Time and 5 hours ahead of Standard European Time. 

Currency: 1 EC dollar (EC$) = 100 cents. The East Caribbean dollar is converted at the fixed rate of $2.70 EC to $1.00 US. East Caribbean dollars (EC$) per US$1—2.7000 (fixed rate since 1976).

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Costs: SVG is one of the resonable Caribbean countries, but some of the Grenadine Islands are very expensive.

Location: Caribbean, islands in the Caribbean Sea, north of Trinidad and Tobago. 

Geographic coordinates: 13 15 N, 61 12 W. 

Highest point: Soufriere 1,234 m. 

Electricity: 220/240 volts AC, 50Hz. 

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Airports: 5. 

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Ports and harbors: Kingstown. 

Telephone system: islandwide, fully automatic telephone system; VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to the other islands of the Grenadines;  VHF/UHF radiotelephone from Saint Vincent to Barbados; new SHF radiotelephone to Grenada and to Saint Lucia; access to Intelsat earth station in Martinique through Saint Lucia. 

Government type: constitutional monarchy. 

Legal system: based on English common law. 

Ethnic groups: black, white, East Indian, Carib Amerindian. 

Religions: Anglican, Methodist, Roman Catholic, Seventh-Day Adventist. 

Literacy: 96% (male: 96%, female: 96%). 

Industries: food processing, cement, furniture, clothing, starch. 

Agriculture products: bananas, coconuts, sweet potatoes, spices; small numbers of cattle, sheep, pigs, goats; fish. 

Natural resources: NEGL. 

GDP—per capita: purchasing power parity—$2,400 (1998 est.). 

Unemployment rate: 35%-40% (1994 est.). 

Radio frequencies

BBC World Service MHz 17.72 15.22 6.195 5.975

Voice of America: MHz 13.74 11.70 6.130 5.995