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ID number     :CI WOFACT 100              
Title         :GUERNSEY 
Data type     :TEXT 
End year      :1994
Date of record:02/16/1994
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| GUERNSEY 
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GUERNSEY 
Affiliation: (British crown dependency) 
 
GEOGRAPHY 
Location: in the English Channel, 52 km west of France between UK and 
France 
 
Map references: Europe 
 
Area: 
 
total area: 194 km2 
 
land area: 194 km2 
 
comparative area: slightly larger than Washington, DC 
 
note: includes Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and some other smaller 
islands 
 
Land boundaries: 0 km 
 
Coastline: 50 km 
 
territorial sea: 3 nm 
 
International disputes: none 
 
Climate: temperate with mild winters and cool summers; about 50% of days 
are overcast 
 
Terrain: mostly level with low hills in southwest 
 
Natural resources: cropland 
 
Land use: 
 
arable land: NA% 
 
permanent crops: NA% 
 
meadows and pastures: NA% 
 
forest and woodland: NA% 
 
other: NA% 
 
Irrigated land: NA km2 
 
Environment: large, deepwater harbor at Saint Peter Port 
 
PEOPLE 
Population: 63,075 (July 1993 est.) 
 
Population growth rate: 1.02% (1993 est.) 
 
Birth rate: 13.1 births/1,000 population (1993 est.) 
 
Death rate: 10.08 deaths/1,000 population (1993 est.) 
 
Net migration rate: 7.23 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1993 est.) 
 
Infant mortality rate: 6.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1993 est.) 
 
Life expectancy at birth: 
 
total population: 77.96 years 
 
male: 75.27 years 
 
female: 80.68 years (1993 est.) 
 
Total fertility rate: 1.66 children born/woman (1993 est.) 
 
Nationality: 
 
noun: Channel Islander(s) 
 
adjective: Channel Islander 
 
Ethnic divisions: UK and Norman-French descent 
Congregational, Methodist 
 
Languages: English, French; Norman-French dialect spoken in country 
districts 
 
total population: NA% 
 
male: NA% 
 
female: NA% 
 
Labor force: NA 
 
GOVERNMENT 
Names: 
 
conventional long form: Bailiwick of Guernsey 
 
conventional short form: Guernsey 
 
Digraph: GK 
 
Type: British crown dependency 
 
Capital: Saint Peter Port 
 
Administrative divisions: none (British crown dependency) 
 
Independence: none (British crown dependency) 
 
Constitution: unwritten; partly statutes, partly common law and practice 
 
Legal system: English law and local statute; justice is administered by 
the Royal Court 
 
National holiday: Liberation Day, 9 May (1945) 
 
Political parties and leaders: none; all independents 
 
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal 
 
Elections: 
 
Assembly of the States: last held NA (next to be held NA); results - no 
percent of vote by party since all are independents; seats - (60 total, 33 
elected), all independents 
 
Executive branch: British monarch, lieutenant governor, bailiff, deputy 
bailiff 
 
Legislative branch: unicameral Assembly of the States 
 
Judicial branch: Royal Court 
 
Leaders: 
 
Chief of State: Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952) 
 
February 1992) 
 
Member of: none 
 
Diplomatic representation in US: none (British crown dependency) 
 
US diplomatic representation: none (British crown dependency) 
 
Flag: white with the red cross of Saint George (patron saint of England) 
extending to the edges of the flag 
 
ECONOMY 
Overview: Tourism is a major source of revenue. Other economic activity 
includes financial services, breeding the world-famous Guernsey cattle, and 
growing tomatoes and flowers for export. 
 
National product: GDP - $NA 
 
National product real growth rate: 9% (1987) 
 
National product per capita: $NA 
 
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7% (1988) 
 
Unemployment rate: NA% 
 
Budget: revenues $208.9 million; expenditures $173.9 million, including 
capital expenditures of $NA (1988) 
 
Exports: $NA 
 
commodities: tomatoes, flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other 
vegetables 
 
partners: UK (regarded as internal trade) 
 
Imports: $NA 
 
commodities: coal, gasoline, and oil 
 
partners: UK (regarded as internal trade) 
 
External debt: $NA 
 
Industrial production: growth rate NA% 
 
Electricity: 173,000 kW capacity; 525 million kWh produced, 9,060 kWh per 
capita (1992) 
 
Industries: tourism, banking 
 
Agriculture: tomatoes, flowers (mostly grown in greenhouses), sweet 
peppers, eggplant, other vegetables, fruit; Guernsey cattle 
 
Economic aid: none 
 
Currency: 1 Guernsey (#G) pound = 100 pence 
 
note - the Guernsey pound is at par with the British pound 
 
Fiscal year: calendar year 
 
COMMUNICATIONS 
Ports: Saint Peter Port, Saint Sampson 
 
Airports: 
 
total: 2 
 
useable: 2 
 
with permanent-surface runways: 2 
 
with runways over 3,659 m: 0 
 
with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 0 
 
with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 1 
 
Telecommunications: broadcast stations - 1 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 41,900 
telephones; 1 submarine cable 
 
Defense forces 
Note: defense is the responsibility of the UK 
 
 
 
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