Church of Melanesia 32.8%, Roman Catholic 19%, South Seas Evangelical 17%, Seventh-Day Adventist 11.2%, United Church 10.3%, Christian Fellowship Church 2.4%, other Christian 4.4%, other 2.4%, unspecified 0.3%, none 0.2% (1999 census)
Roman Catholic 87%, other (includes Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim) 13% (2000)
Languages
Melanesian pidgin in much of the country is lingua franca; English (official; but spoken by only 1%-2% of the population); 120 indigenous languages
Luxembourgish (national language), German (administrative language), French (administrative language)
Exports
machinery and equipment, steel products, chemicals, rubber products, glass
External Debt
$2,643,000,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.6734 (2008 est.), 0.7345 (2007), 0.7964 (2006), 0.8041 (2005), 0.8054 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
0.900%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count
Location
Oceania, group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, east of Papua New Guinea
Western Europe, between France and Germany
Area
28,896 km sq
2,586 km sq
Coastline
5,313 km
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Climate
tropical monsoon; few extremes of temperature and weather
modified continental with mild winters, cool summers
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