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Key Facts
Climate
tropical, modified by southeast trade winds; warm, dry winter (May to November); hot, wet, humid summer (November to May)
Coastline
177 km
Government type
parliamentary republic
Languages
Creole 86.5%, Bhojpuri 5.3%, French 4.1%, two languages 1.4%, other 2.6% (includes English, one of the two official languages of the National Assembly, which is spoken by less than 1% of the populatio...
Natural resources
arable land, fish
Terrain
small coastal plain rising to discontinuous mountains encircling central plateau