The 1999 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ

      Telephones: 14,426,673 (1992 est.)

      Telephone system: good working system domestic: extensive microwave radio relay system and a domestic satellite system with 64 earth stations international: 3 coaxial submarine cables; satellite earth stations—3 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean Region East)

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 1,627, FM 251, shortwave 114 (of which 91 are associated with AM stations) (1998)

      Radios: 60 million (1993 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 138 (1997)

      Televisions: 30 million (1993 est.)

      Transportation

      Railways:

       total: 28,862 km (1,187 km electrified)

       broad gauge: 4,123 km 1.600-m gauge

       narrow gauge: 24,390 km 1.000-m gauge; 13 km 0.760-m gauge

       dual gauge: 336 km 1.000-m and 1.600-m gauges (three rails)

      Highways: total: 1.98 million km paved: 184,140 km unpaved: 1,795,860 km (1996 est.)

      Waterways: 50,000 km navigable

      Pipelines: crude oil 2,980 km; petroleum products 4,762 km;

       natural gas 4,246 km (1998)

      Ports and harbors: Belem, Fortaleza, Ilheus, Imbituba, Manaus,

       Paranagua, Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande,

       Salvador, Santos, Vitoria

      Merchant marine:

       total: 179 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,132,037

       GRT/6,642,442 DWT

       ships by type: bulk 35, cargo 28, chemical tanker 6, combination

       ore/oil 10, container 10, liquefied gas tanker 10, multifunction

       large-load carrier 1, oil tanker 61, passenger-cargo 5, refrigerated

       cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 11, short-sea passenger 1 (1998 est.)

      Airports: 3,265 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with paved runways: total: 514 over 3,047 m: 5 2,438 to 3,047 m: 19 1,524 to 2,437 m: 134 914 to 1,523 m: 325 under 914 m: 31 (1998 est.)

      Airports—with unpaved runways: total: 2,751 1,524 to 2,437 m: 73 914 to 1,523 m: 1,312 under 914 m: 1,366 (1998 est.)

      Military

      Military branches: Brazilian Army, Brazilian Navy (includes naval air and marines), Brazilian Air Force, Federal Police (paramilitary)

      Military manpower—military age: 18 years of age

      Military manpower—availability:

       males age 15–49: 47,230,426 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 31,723,597 (1999 est.)

      Military manpower—reaching military age annually:

       males: 1,841,858 (1999 est.)

      Military expenditures—dollar figure: $14.7 billion (1998)

      Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 1.9% (1998)

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes—international: two short sections of boundary with Uruguay are in dispute—Arroio Invernada (Arroyo de la Invernada) area of the Rio Quarai (Rio Cuareim) and the islands at the confluence of the Rio Quarai and the Uruguay River

      Illicit drugs: limited illicit producer of cannabis, minor coca cultivation in the Amazon region, mostly used for domestic consumption; government has a large-scale eradication program to control cannabis; important transshipment country for Bolivian, Colombian, and Peruvian cocaine headed for the US and Europe; increasingly used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia

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      Geography

      Location: Southern Asia, archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia

      Geographic coordinates: 6 00 S, 71 30 E

      Map references: World

      Area:

       total: 60 sq km

       land: 60 sq km

       water: 0 sq km

       note: includes the entire Chagos Archipelago

      Area—comparative: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC

      Land boundaries: 0 km

      Coastline: 698 km

      Maritime claims: exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 3 nm

      Climate: tropical marine; hot, humid, moderated by trade winds

      Terrain: flat and low (up to four meters in elevation)

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: unnamed location on Diego Garcia 15 m

      Natural resources: coconuts, fish

      Land use:

       arable land: 0%

       permanent crops: 0%

       permanent pastures: 0%

       forests and woodland: NA%

       other: NA%

      Irrigated land: 0 sq km (1993)

      Natural hazards: NA

      Environment—current issues: NA

      Environment—international agreements:

       party to: NA

       signed, but not ratified: NA

      Geography—note: archipelago of 2,300 islands; Diego Garcia,

       largest and southernmost island, occupies strategic location in

       central Indian Ocean; island is site of joint US-UK military facility

      People

      Population: no indigenous inhabitants note: approximately 3,000 native inhabitants, known as СКАЧАТЬ