Guernsey Country Data

Area: total: 78 sq km
land: 78 sq km
water: 0 sq km
note: includes Alderney, Guernsey, Herm, Sark, and some other smaller islands

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

Population: 65,726 [July 2008 est.]

Age structure: 0-14 years: 14.6% [male 4,849/female 4,727]
15-64 years: 67.5% [male 22,013/female 22,380]
65 years and over: 17.9% [male 4,988/female 6,769] [2008 est.]

Nationality: noun: Channel Islander[s]
adjective: Channel Islander

Ethnic groups: UK and Norman-French descent with small percentages from other European countries

Languages: English, French, Norman-French dialect spoken in country districts

Capital: name: Saint Peter Port
geographic coordinates: 49 27 N, 2 32 W
time difference: UTC 0 [5 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time]
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March ends last Sunday in October

National holiday: Liberation Day, 9 May [1945]

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 3%
industry: 10%
services: 87% [2000]

Labor force: 31,470 [March 2006]

Budget: revenues: $563.6 million
expenditures: $530.9 million [2005]

Agriculture - products: tomatoes, greenhouse flowers, sweet peppers, eggplant, fruit Guernsey cattle

Industries: tourism, banking

Exports:

Exports - commodities: tomatoes, flowers and ferns, sweet peppers, eggplant, other vegetables

Exports - partners: UK note - regarded as internal trade [2006]

Imports:

Imports - commodities: coal, gasoline, oil, machinery and equipment

Imports - partners: UK note - regarded as internal trade [2006]

Currency (code): Guernsey pound
note: the British pound is also legal tender

Exchange rates: Guernsey pounds per US dollar - 0.4993 [2007], 0.5418 [2006], 0.5493 [2005], 0.5462 [2004], 0.6125 [2003]
note: the Guernsey pound is at par with the British pound

Airports: 2 [2007]

Ports and terminals: Saint Peter Port, Saint Sampson

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