The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      19 (2000)

      Internet users:

      160,000 (2005)

      Transportation

       Barbados

      Airports:

      1 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 1 over 3,047 m: 1 (2007)

      Roadways:

      total: 1,600 km paved: 1,600 km (2004)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 85 by type: bulk carrier 15, cargo 50, chemical tanker 7, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 3, refrigerated cargo 6, roll on/roll off 2 foreign-owned: 80 (Canada 9, Greece 12, India 1, Iran 2, Lebanon 1, Norway 38, Sweden 7, Syria 1, UK 9) registered in other countries: 1 (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1) (2008)

      Ports and terminals:

      Bridgetown

      Military

       Barbados

      Military branches:

      Royal Barbados Defense Force: Troops Command, Barbados Coast Guard (2007)

      Military service age and obligation:

      18 years of age for voluntary military service (younger requires parental consent); no conscription (2008)

      Manpower available for military service:

      males age 16–49: 75,265 females age 16–49: 75,389 (2008 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 58,556 females age 16–49: 58,143 (2008 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: 2,157 female: 2,155 (2008 est.)

      Military expenditures:

      0.5% of GDP (2006 est.)

      Military - note:

      the Royal Barbados Defense Force includes a land-based Troop Command and a small Coast Guard; the primary role of the land element is to defend the island against external aggression; the Command consists of a single, part-time battalion with a small regular cadre that is deployed throughout the island; it increasingly supports the police in patrolling the coastline to prevent smuggling and other illicit activities (2007)

      Transnational Issues

       Barbados

      Disputes - international:

      Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago abide by the April 2006 Permanent Court of Arbitration decision delimiting a maritime boundary and limiting catches of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobago's exclusive economic zone; joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which permits Venezuela to extend its EEZ/continental shelf over a large portion of the eastern Caribbean Sea

      Illicit drugs:

      one of many Caribbean transshipment points for narcotics bound for Europe and the US; offshore financial center

      This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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      @Belarus

      Introduction

       Belarus

      Background:

      After seven decades as a constituent republic of the USSR, Belarus attained its independence in 1991. It has retained closer political and economic ties to Russia than any of the other former Soviet republics. Belarus and Russia signed a treaty on a two-state union on 8 December 1999 envisioning greater political and economic integration. Although Belarus agreed to a framework to carry out the accord, serious implementation has yet to take place. Since his election in July 1994 as the country's first president, Alexandr LUKASHENKO has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion continue.

      Geography

       Belarus

      Location:

      Eastern Europe, east of Poland

      Geographic coordinates:

      53 00 N, 28 00 E

      Map references:

      Europe

      Area:

      total: 207,600 sq km land: 207,600 sq km water: 0 sq km

      Area - comparative:

      slightly smaller than Kansas

      Land boundaries:

      total: 3,306 km border countries: Latvia 171 km, Lithuania 680 km, Poland 605 km, Russia 959 km, Ukraine 891 km

      Coastline:

      0 km (landlocked)

      Maritime claims:

      none (landlocked)

      Climate:

      cold winters, cool and moist summers; transitional between continental and maritime

      Terrain:

      generally flat and contains much marshland

      Elevation extremes:

      lowest point: Nyoman River 90 m highest point: Dzyarzhynskaya Hara 346 m

      Natural resources:

      forests, peat deposits, small quantities of oil and natural gas, granite, dolomitic limestone, marl, chalk, sand, gravel, clay

      Land use:

      arable land: 26.77% permanent crops: 0.6% other: 72.63% (2005)

      Irrigated land:

      1,310 sq km (2003)

      Total renewable water resources:

      58 cu km (1997)

      Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural):

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