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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 196
3 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 2
2,438 to 3,047 m 1 Under 914 m 1 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 1
Under 914 m 1 (2012) Roadways World Ranking: 181
Total 1,165 km
Paved 384 km Unpaved 781 km (2002) Merchant marine World Ranking: 9
Total 1,257
By type Bulk carrier 49, cargo 753, carrier 6, chemical tanker 4, container 407, liquefied gas 12, refrigerated cargo 7, roll on/roll off 17, vehicle carrier 2 Foreign-owned 1,215 (Albania 1, Colombia 1, Denmark 20, Estonia 10, Germany 1094, Greece 4, Iceland 10, Latvia 16, Lithuania 3, Mexico 1, Netherlands 17, Norway 9, NZ 2, Poland 2, Russia 3, Switzerland 7, Turkey 7, UK 1, US 7) (2010) Ports and terminals
Saint John's
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The Siboney were the first people to inhabit the islands of Antigua and Barbuda in 2400 B.C., but Arawak Indians populated the islands when COLUMBUS landed on his second voyage in 1493. Early Spanish and French settlements were succeeded by an English colony in 1667. Slavery, established to run the sugar plantations on Antigua, was abolished in 1834. The islands became an independent state within the British Commonwealth of Nations in 1981.