Saint Kitts and Nevis

Federation Sent-Kits and Nevis (Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis) or Federation Saint Christopher and Nevis (Federation of Saint Cristofer and Nevis), the state in West Indies, had on islands Sent-Kits (Saint Christopher) and Nevis. A state total area 261,6  sq. km, including the square islands Sent-Kits (Saint Christopher) 168,4  sq. km. The country population compounds 41,8  thousand persons (1994), mainly the African parentage (86 %). The Official language - English. On islands overtops protestantizm (anglicanism and metodizm). Capital - the city of Basseterre on island Sent-Kits.

Sent-Kits and Nevis is a part of the British commonwealth. Under the constitution of 1982 the head of the state the queen of the Great Britain Elizabeth Second, presented by the governor-general is considered. Legislature in the country the National meeting, consisting carries out them 11  the deputies selected for a period of five years. Inhabitants of island Nevis choose aboriginal government body - island Nevis Assembly. The executive power in the state is carried out by the government which since 1995 the prime minister D. heads Douglas.

Islands Sent-Kits and Nevis a vulcanic parentage, goristy (altitude to 1155 . A climate tropical, hot. Oscillations of monthly average temperatures are insignificant - 18-24  °s. Deposits will fall out from 700 to 1200  mm a year.

Islands have been open by Christopher Columbus in 1493. From the beginning of seventeenth century Sent-Kitsom and Nevis France and England tried to take possession. In 1623 on Sent-Kitse the English settlement has been based first in West Indies, in 1624 on island there was also a French outpost. For Englishmen and Frenchmen this island became baseline for colonisation of West Indies, for what it name a cradle of Caribbean Islands. Formally in 1625 Sent-Kits has been affiliated to the British corona. In 1628 Englishmen have captureed Nevis. Indians have been expeled from islands by 1629, and for job on plantations colonizers began to deliver Negroes from Africa. France installed the control over Sent-Kitsom twice and only in 1783 of island have been definitively fixed beyond the Great Britain. Since September, 19th, 1983 Sent-Kits and Nevis - an independent state.

The Basis of economy of islands - agriculture and service of foreign tourists. The square of treated lands compounds 8  thousand in hectares. Third of treated lands it is occupied under a sugarcane, on island Nevis the cotton plant, a coconut palm, pineapples are cultivated. The population traditionally is engaged in fishery. By own food Sent-Kits and Nevis are supplied half. The industry is presented by the small factories on rehash of agricultural products, effecting of alcoholic drinks, textiles, shoe, clothes, medical products, electroequipment assemblage. Ten percent of able-bodied population - the unemployed. Extent of motorways on islands 198  km, on Sent-Kitse for service of plantations of a sugarcane the narrow-gauge railway in length 58  is laid; km. In three kilometres from Basseterre the international airport Golden-fate is had. The country exports Saccharum and syrup (40  Export %, mainly to the Great Britain and Canada), cottony and coconut oil. Raw sugar and syrup-melassy export mainly to the Great Britain and Canada. Osnovanye trading partners Sent-Kitsa and Nevis: the USA (40 % of import and 44  export %), the Great Britain, the countries of West Indies. Country monetary unit - an east caribbean dollar.