The 2003 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Radios:

       2.45 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       570,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .hn

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       8 (2000)

      Internet users:

       40,000 (2000)

      Transportation Honduras

      Railways: total: 699 km narrow gauge: 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m gauge (2002)

      Highways: total: 13,603 km paved: 2,775 km unpaved: 10,828 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       465 km (navigable by small craft)

      Ports and harbors:

       La Ceiba, Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela, Puerto

       Lempira

      Merchant marine:

       total: 250 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 680,784 GRT/765,815 DWT

       note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of

       convenience: Argentina 1, Bahrain 1, Belize 1, British Virgin

       Islands 1, Bulgaria 1, China 8, Costa Rica 1, Cyprus 1, Egypt 6, El

       Salvador 1, Germany 1, Greece 18, Hong Kong 3, Indonesia 2, Italy 1,

       Japan 7, Lebanon 4, Liberia 4, Maldives 2, Marshall Islands 1,

       Mexico 1, Nigeria 1, Norway 1, Panama 14, Philippines 1, Romania 2,

       Russia 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis 3, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

       1, Singapore 24, South Korea 12, Spain 1, Syria 1, Taiwan 4,

       Tanzania 1, Trinidad and Tobago 1, Turkey 2, Turks and Caicos

       Islands 1, United Arab Emirates 6, UK 1, US 5, Vanuatu 1, Vietnam 1,

       Virgin Islands (UK) 1 (2002 est.)

       ships by type: bulk 18, cargo 140, chemical tanker 4, container 7,

       livestock carrier 2, passenger 2, passenger/cargo 3, petroleum

       tanker 55, refrigerated cargo 10, roll on/roll off 4, short-sea

       passenger 4, specialized tanker 1

      Airports:

       115 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 12 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 4 (2002)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 103 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 18 under 914 m: 83 (2002)

      Military Honduras

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy (including marines), Air Force

      Military manpower - military age:

       18 years of age (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 1,594,266 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 948,957 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 74,895 (2003 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $35 million (FY99)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       0.6% (FY99)

      Transnational Issues Honduras

      Disputes - international:

       in 1992, ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed

       areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border, but they still remain

       largely undemarcated; in 2002, El Salvador filed an application to

       the ICJ to revise the decision on a section of bolsones; the ICJ

       also advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the

       Golfo de Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the

       Pacific; El Salvador claims tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned by the

       ICJ, off Honduras in the Golfo de Fonseca; Honduras claims Sapodilla

       Cays off the coast of Belize but agreed to creation of a joint

       ecological park and Guatemalan corridor in the Caribbean in the 2002

       Belize-Guatemala Differendum; Nicaragua filed a claim against

       Honduras in 1999 and against Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over a

       complex maritime dispute in the Caribbean Sea

      Illicit drugs:

       transshipment point for drugs and narcotics; illicit producer of

       cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local

       consumption; corruption is a major problem; some money-laundering

       activity

      This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003

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      @Hong Kong

      Introduction Hong Kong

      Background:

       Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China

       the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the

       19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on

       19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special

       Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this

       agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two

       systems" formula, China's СКАЧАТЬ