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STAT	Akrotiri	Canada	HISTORY
Economy > Economy > Overview	Economic activity is limited to providing services to the military and their families located in Akrotiri. All food and manufactured goods must be imported.	As a high-tech industrial society in the trillion-dollar class, Canada resembles the US in its market-oriented economic system, pattern of production, and affluent living standards. Since World War II, the impressive growth of the manufacturing, mining, and service sectors has transformed the nation from a largely rural economy into one primarily industrial and urban. The 1989 US-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) (which includes Mexico) touched off a dramatic increase in trade and economic integration with the US its principal trading partner. Canada enjoys a substantial trade surplus with the US, which absorbs about three-fourths of Canadian exports each year. Canada is the US's largest foreign supplier of energy, including oil, gas, uranium, and electric power. Given its great natural resources, highly skilled labor force, and modern capital plant, Canada enjoyed solid economic growth from 1993 through 2007. Buffeted by the global economic crisis, the economy dropped into a sharp recession in the final months of 2008, and Ottawa posted its first fiscal deficit in 2009 after 12 years of surplus. Canada's major banks, however, emerged from the financial crisis of 2008-09 among the strongest in the world, owing to the financial sector's tradition of conservative lending practices and strong capitalization. Canada achieved marginal growth in 2010-12 and plans to balance the budget by 2015. In addition, the country's petroleum sector is rapidly becoming an even larger economic driver with Alberta's oil sands significantly boosting Canada's proven oil reserves, ranking the country third in the world behind Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
Environment > Current issues	hunting around the salt lake; note - breeding place for loggerhead and green turtles; only remaining colony of griffon vultures is on the base	air pollution and resulting acid rain severely affecting lakes and damaging forests; metal smelting, coal-burning utilities, and vehicle emissions impacting on agricultural and forest productivity; ocean waters becoming contaminated due to agricultural, industrial, mining, and forestry activities
Geography > Area > Comparative	about 0.7 times the size of Washington, DC	slightly larger than the US
Geography > Area > Total	123 sq km Ranked 223th.	9.98 million sq km Ranked 3rd. 81176 times more than Akrotiri
Geography > Climate	temperate; Mediterranean with hot, dry summers and cool winters	varies from temperate in south to subarctic and arctic in north
Geography > Coastline	None	202,080 km Ranked 1st.
Geography > Geographic coordinates	34 37 N, 32 58 E	60 00 N, 95 00 W
Geography > Location	Eastern Mediterranean, peninsula on the southwest coast of Cyprus	Northern North America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean on the east, North Pacific Ocean on the west, and the Arctic Ocean on the north, north of the conterminous US
Government > Capital city > Name	Episkopi Cantonment (base administrative center for Akrotiri and Dhekelia)	Ottawa
Government > Constitution	presented 3 August 1960, effective 16 August 1960; amended 1966 (The Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia Order in Council 1960, serves as a basic legal document)	made up of unwritten and written acts, customs, judicial decisions, and traditions; the written part of the constitution consists of the Constitution Act of 29 March 1867, which created a federation of four provinces, and the Constitution Act of 17 April 1982, which transferred formal control over the constitution from Britain to Canada, and added a Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms as well as procedures for constitutional amendments
Government > Executive branch > Chief of state	Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952)	Queen ELIZABETH II (since 6 February 1952); represented by Governor General Michaelle JEAN (since 27 September 2005)
Government > Executive branch > Head of government	Administrator Air Vice Marshall Graham STACEY (since 4 November 2010)	Prime Minister Stephen Joseph HARPER (since 6 February 2006)
Government > Judicial branch	The Court headed by a resident judge and senior judges from the UK as needed	Supreme Court of Canada (judges are appointed by the governor general on the recommendation of the prime minister); Federal Court of Canada; Federal Court of Appeal; Tax Court of Canada; Provincial/Territorial Courts (these are named variously Court of Appeal, Court of Queen's Bench, Superior Court, Supreme Court, and Court of Justice)
Government > Legal system	the Sovereign Base Area Administration has its own court system to deal with civil and criminal matters; laws applicable to the Cypriot population are, as far as possible, the same as the laws of the Republic of Cyprus	common law system except in Quebec where civil law based on the French civil code prevails
Language > Languages	Greek	English (official) 59.3%, French (official) 23.2%, other 17.5%
Government > Capital city > Geographic coordinates	34	45 25 N, 75 42 W
Media > Broadcast media	British Forces Broadcast Service (BFBS) provides multi-channel satellite TV service as well as BFBS radio broadcasts to the Akrotiri Sovereign Base	2 m
Geography > Area > Comparative to US places	about 0.7 times the size of Washington, DC	somewhat larger than the US
Government > Country name > Conventional long form	none	none
Geography > Land boundaries > Border countries	Cyprus 47.4 km	US 8,893 km (includes 2,477 km with Alaska)
Media > Radio broadcast stations	AM NA, FM 1, shortwave NA (British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides Radio 1 and Radio 2 service to Akrotiri, Dhekelia, and Nicosia)	AM 245, FM 582, shortwave 6
Government > Executive branch > Elections	none; the monarchy is hereditary; the administrator appointed by the monarch	the monarchy is hereditary; governor general appointed by the monarch on the advice of the prime minister for a five-year term; following legislative elections, the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition in the House of Commons generally designated prime minister by the governor general
Government > Flag description	the flag of the UK is used	two vertical bands of red (hoist and fly side, half width) with white square between them; an 11-pointed red maple leaf is centered in the white square; the maple leaf has long been a Canadian symbol; the official colors of Canada are red and white

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