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__**Facts**__

[|**Currency:***] East Caribbean Dollar Click on National Anthem and scroll down and click on download link to listen to it media type="custom" key="22861" type="custom" key="22861" O Land of Beauty! Our country where peace abounds, Thy children stand free On the strength of will and love. With God in all our struggles, Saint Kitts and Nevis be A Nation bound together With a common destiny.
 * [|Population:]** 39,129 (July 2006 est.)
 * [|Birth Rate:]** 18.02 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
 * [|Death Rate:]** 8.33 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
 * [|Population Growth Rate:]** 0.5% (2006 est.)
 * [|Life expectancy at birth:]** total population: 72.4 years male: 69.56 years female: 75.42 years (2006 est.)
 * [|Net Migration Rate:]** -4.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)
 * [|Ethnic groups:]** predominantly black, British, Portuguese, and Lebanese, [|settlers from the subcontinent of India]
 * [|Religions:]** Anglican, other Protestant, Roman Catholic
 * [|Languages:]** English, Hindi, American Indian languages
 * [|Literacy:]** total population: 97.8% no difference for male/female
 * [|Government Type:]** Constitutional monarchy.
 * [|Capital:]** Basseterre[[image:http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/k/kn.gif align="right" link="http://http//www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/kn.html"]]
 * __[|Agriculture:]__** sugarcane, rice, yams, vegetables, bananas; fish
 * __[|Exports:]__** $70 million (2004 est.): machinery, food, electronics, beverages, tobacco.

As stalwarts we stand, For justice and liberty, With wisdom and truth We will serve and honour thee. No sword nor spear can conquer, For God will sure defend. His blessings shall for ever To posterity extend.


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__**Poltical map**__ __[|Climate:]__ Tropical (no rainforest in St Kitts and Nevis) [|Relative location:] North of Antigua and East of Puerto Rico [|Absolute Location:] 17 degrees North and 64 degrees West

St Kits and Nevis is in the South Western Hemisphere

The prime minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis is [|Denzil Douglas]

Some [|major towns or cities] are: Charlestown (Nevis), Newcastle, Sandy Point Town, Dieppe Bay Town, Saint Paul

[|round trip flight] from Newark Airport o Bassetere, St Kitts is: onestop is $1180 twostops is $980 __**Five events in Saint Kitts and Nevis's history**__ In [|1970] a Nevis Reformation Party founded, campaign for independence. In [|1980] independence was attained September of [|1998] hurricane george strikes In October of [|2004] Denzil Douglas started his third consecutive year as prime minister March of [|2005] the Government decides to close the 300-year-old, loss-making sugar industry after the 2005 harvest.

__Physical Features__ Mt. Liamuiga, covered in clouds



South Friars Bay

Mt. Misery

[|5-Day Forecast for Basseterre]
Weather Map
 * Sunday || Monday || Tuesday || Wednesday || Thursday ||
 * [[image:http://icons-aa.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/mostlysunny.GIF width="44" height="44"]]82° F | 78° F 28° C | 26° C || [[image:http://icons-aa.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/mostlysunny.GIF width="44" height="44"]]82° F | 78° F 28° C | 26° C || [[image:http://icons-aa.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/mostlysunny.GIF width="44" height="44"]]80° F | 77° F 27° C | 25° C || [[image:http://icons-aa.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/mostlysunny.GIF width="44" height="44"]]80° F | 77° F 27° C | 25° C || [[image:http://icons-aa.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/mostlysunny.GIF width="44" height="44"]]80° F | 77° F 27° C | 25° C ||
 * Scattered Clouds || Scattered Clouds || Scattered Clouds || Scattered Clouds || Scattered Clouds ||

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