The 2004 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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СКАЧАТЬ style="font-size:15px;">       2.45 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

       11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)

      Televisions:

       570,000 (1997)

      Internet country code:

       .hn

      Internet hosts:

       1,944 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       8 (2000)

      Internet users:

       168,600 (2002)

      Transportation Honduras

      Railways: total: 699 km narrow gauge: 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m gauge (2003)

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

      Waterways:

       465 km (most navigable only by small craft) (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

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

       Lempira

      Merchant marine:

       total: 238 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 598,600 GRT/616,158 DWT

       registered in other countries: 16 (2004 est.)

       foreign-owned: Argentina 1, Bahrain 1, British Virgin Islands 1,

       Bulgaria 1, Cayman Islands 1, China 4, Costa Rica 1, Cyprus 1, Egypt

       5, El Salvador 1, Greece 16, Hong Kong 3, Indonesia 2, Israel 1,

       Italy 1, Japan 2, Jordan 1, South Korea 9, Lebanon 4, Liberia 4,

       Maldives 2, Marshall Islands 3, Mexico 1, Nigeria 2, Panama 10,

       Philippines 1, Russia 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis 3, Saint Vincent and

       the Grenadines 1, Saudi Arabia 1, Singapore 22, Spain 1, Taiwan 2,

       Tanzania 1, Thailand 1, Turkey 2, Turks and Caicos Islands 1, United

       States 7, Vanuatu 1, Vietnam 1

       by type: bulk 12, cargo 139, chemical tanker 5, combination bulk 1,

       container 5, liquefied gas 1, livestock carrier 1, passenger 3,

       passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 54, refrigerated cargo 8, roll

       on/roll off 4, short-sea/passenger 3

      Airports:

       115 (2003 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 11 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 3 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 104 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 18 under 914 m: 84 (2004 est.)

      Military Honduras

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy (including Naval Infantry), Air Force

      Military manpower - military age and obligation:

       18 years of age for voluntary 2–3 year military service (2004)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 1,642,029 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 977,130 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 76,143 (2004 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $99.8 million (2003)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       1.5% (2003)

      Transnational Issues Honduras

      Disputes - international:

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

       areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border, and the OAS is

       assisting with a technical resolution of bolsones; in 2003, the ICJ

       rejected El Salvador's request to revise its decision on one

       bolsone; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a

       maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of

       Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny

       Conejo Island, not mentioned by the ICJ, off Honduras in the Gulf of

       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 failed 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 10 February, 2005

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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, СКАЧАТЬ