Antigua and Barbuda

Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua and Barbuda), the state in West Indies, had on islands Antiguas, Barbuda and Redonda from bunch of Lesser Antilles. A total area of islands 443  sq. km. The population compounds 70  thousand persons (1993), in the core of the African parentage. An official language - English. The majority of believers - anglikane. Àäìèíèñòðàòèâíî-òåððèòîðèàëüíîå  division: 6  communities and 2  region. The urban population compounds 32 % (1990). Capital - Saint Johns (36  thousand persons).

Antigua and Barbuda is a part of the British commonwealth, the head of the state the queen of the Great Britain Elizabeth Second, presented by the governor-general is considered. According to konstatutsiej 1981 the legislature belongs to a parliament of two houses consisting of the senate and the House of Representatives. The executive power belongs to the government led by prime minister L. B.Berdom. Political life of the country is defined by contest between the Labour party which does an emphasis on attraction of foreign investments and the Incorporated progressive lot supporting encouragement of aboriginal businessmen.

The Surface of islands hilly, to 402  m in altitude. A climate tropical, passatnyj. Monthly average temperatures fluctuate from 15 to 33  °s. Deposits falls out nearby 1300  mm a year.

In an island antiquity have been occupied by Indians. In 1493 Christopher Columbus has discovered Antigua. In 1632 these places have passed under authority of Englishmen. For job on plantations of sugarcanes the English planters have delivered Negroes from Africa. The slavery has been cancelled in 1834 and offsprings of Negroes of slaves have compounded overwhelming majority of the population of Antigua and Barbuda. Since 1940 to Antigua places naval and military-air baselines the USA. In 1967 these terrains have gained the status of the state associated with the Great Britain. On November, 1st, 1981 independence of Antigua and Barbuda has been intoned.

70 % working to Antigua and Barbuda are occupied in tourist sphere. Tourism supplies 70 % of currency receipts of the country. On islands there are factories of the textile and furniture industry, assemblage household electrical engineers is conducted. In agriculture the sugarcane, a cotton plant, citrous, tropical fruit are cultivated. To the state belongs three quarters of all supply of land. Extent of highways on islands - 548  km. The serious damage to a national economy, especially a tourism infrastructure, has put in 1995 hurricane Luis. Export feature articles: raw sugar, syrup-melassa, a seed cotton, citrus. The basic foreign trade partners: The USA, the Great Britain, Germany, Canada, Japan, China. Monetary unit of Antigua and Barbuda - the East Caribbean dollar, to equal hundred cents.