The 1997 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Electricity - capacity: 344,000 kW (1995)

      Electricity - production: 1.24 billion kWh (1994)

      Electricity - consumption per capita: 4,003 kWh (1995 est.)

      Agriculture - products: rice, cassava (tapioca), bananas; water buffalo, pigs

      Exports: total value : $2.7 billion (f.o.b., 1995 est.) commodities: crude oil, liquefied natural gas, petroleum products partners: Japan 50%, UK 19%, Thailand 10%, Singapore 9% (1994 est.)

      Imports: total value: $2 billion (c.i.f., 1995 est.) commodities : machinery and transport equipment, manufactured goods, food, chemicals partners: Singapore 29%, UK 19%, US 13%, Malaysia 9%, Japan 5% (1994 est.)

      Debt - external: $0

      Economic aid: $NA

      Currency: 1 Bruneian dollar (B$) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: Bruneian dollars (B$) per US$1 - 1.4061 (January 1997), 1.4100 (1996), 1.4174 (1995), 1.5274 (1994), 1.6158 (1993), 1.6290 (1992); note - the Bruneian dollar is at par with the Singapore dollar

      Fiscal year: calendar year

      @Brunei:Communications

      Telephones: 76,900 (1993)

      Telephone system: service throughout country is adequate for present needs; international service good to adjacent Malaysia domestic: NA international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 1 Pacific Ocean)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 4, shortwave 0

      Radios: 115,000 (1993)

      Television broadcast stations: 1 (1984 est.)

      Televisions: 78,000 (1993 est.)

      @Brunei:Transportation

      Railways: total: 13 km (private line) narrow gauge: 13 km 0.610-m gauge

      Highways: total: 1,120 km paved: 388 km unpaved : 732 km (1995)

      Waterways: 209 km; navigable by craft drawing less than 1.2 m

      Pipelines: crude oil 135 km; petroleum products 418 km; natural gas 920 km

      Ports and harbors: Bandar Seri Begawan, Kuala Belait, Muara, Seria,

       Tutong

      Merchant marine: total: 7 liquefied gas tankers (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 348,476 GRT/340,635 DWT (1996 est.)

      Airports: 2 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (1996 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1996 est.)

      Heliports: 3 (1996 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Land Forces, Navy, Air Force, Royal Brunei Police

      Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15–49: 85,327 (1997 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males: 49,466 (1997 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 3,014 (1997 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: $312 million (1994)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 6.2% (1994)

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: may wish to purchase the Malaysian salient that divides the country; all of the Spratly Islands are claimed by China, Taiwan, and Vietnam; parts of them are claimed by Malaysia and the Philippines; in 1984, Brunei established an exclusive fishing zone that encompasses Louisa Reef, but has not publicly claimed the island ______________________________________________________________________

      BULGARIA

      @Bulgaria:Geography

      Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between

       Romania and Turkey

      Geographic coordinates: 43 00 N, 25 00 E

      Map references: Europe

      Area: total : 110,910 sq km land: 110,550 sq km water: 360 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly larger than Tennessee

      Land boundaries: total: 1,808 km border countries: Greece 494 km, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 148 km, Romania 608 km, Serbia and Montenegro 318 km (all with Serbia), Turkey 240 km

      Coastline: 354 km

      Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea : 12 nm

      Climate: temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers

      Terrain: mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Black Sea 0 m highest point: Musala 2,925 m

      Natural resources: bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land

      Land use: arable land: 37% permanent crops: 2% permanent pastures: 16% forests and woodland: 35% other: 10% (1993 est.)

      Irrigated land: 12,370 sq km (1993 est.)

      Natural hazards: earthquakes, landslides

      Environment - current issues: air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes

      Environment - international agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands signed, but not ratified : Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol

      Geography - note: strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia

      @Bulgaria:People

      Population: 8,290,988 (July 1997 est.)

      Age structure: 0–14 years: 17% (male 720,499; female 685,258) 15–64 years: 67% (male 2,769,288; female 2,823,431) 65 years and over: 16% (male 558,028; female 734,484) (July 1997 est.)

      Population growth rate: −0.63% (1997 est.)

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