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

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      71 million (1997)

      Television broadcast stations:

      138 (1997)

      Televisions:

      36.5 million (1997)

      Internet country code:

      .br

      Internet hosts:

      9.573 million (2008)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

      50 (2000)

      Internet users:

      50 million (2007)

      Transportation

       Brazil

      Airports:

      4,263 (2007)

      Airports - with paved runways:

      total: 718 over 3,047 m: 7 2,438 to 3,047 m: 25 1,524 to 2,437 m: 167 914 to 1,523 m: 467 under 914 m: 52 (2007)

      Airports - with unpaved runways:

      total: 3,545 1,524 to 2,437 m: 83 914 to 1,523 m: 1,555 under 914 m: 1,907 (2007)

      Heliports:

      16 (2007)

      Pipelines:

      condensate/gas 244 km; gas 12,070 km; liquid petroleum gas 351 km; oil 5,214 km; refined products 4,410 km (2007)

      Railways:

      total: 29,295 km broad gauge: 4,932 km 1.600-m gauge (939 km electrified) standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge narrow gauge: 23,773 km 1.000-m gauge (581 km electrified) dual gauge: 396 km 1.000 m and 1.600-m gauges (three rails) (78 km electrified) (2006)

      Roadways:

      total: 1,751,868 km paved: 96,353 km unpaved: 1,655,515 km (2004)

      Waterways:

      50,000 km (most in areas remote from industry and population) (2007)

      Merchant marine:

      total: 136 by type: bulk carrier 19, cargo 22, carrier 1, chemical tanker 7, container 11, liquefied gas 12, passenger/cargo 12, petroleum tanker 45, roll on/roll off 7 foreign-owned: 25 (Chile 1, Denmark 2, Germany 6, Greece 1, Mexico 1, Norway 5, Spain 9) registered in other countries: 8 (Argentina 1, Bahamas 2, Ghana 1, Liberia 3, Marshall Islands 1) (2008)

      Ports and terminals:

      Guaiba, Ilha Grande, Paranagua, Rio Grande, Santos, Sao Sebastiao,

       Tubarao

      Transportation - note:

      the International Maritime Bureau reports the territorial and offshore waters in the Atlantic Ocean as a significant risk for piracy and armed robbery against ships; numerous commercial vessels have been attacked and hijacked both at anchor and while underway; crews have been robbed and stores or cargoes stolen

      Military

       Brazil

      Military branches:

      Brazilian Army, Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil (MB), includes

       Naval Air and Marine Corps (Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais)), Brazilian

       Air Force (Forca Aerea Brasileira, FAB) (2008)

      Military service age and obligation:

      21–45 years of age for compulsory military service; conscript service obligation - 9 to 12 months; 17–45 years of age for voluntary service; an increasing percentage of the ranks are "long-service" volunteer professionals; women were allowed to serve in the armed forces beginning in early 1980s when the Brazilian Army became the first army in South America to accept women into career ranks; women serve in Navy and Air Force only in Women's Reserve Corps (2001)

      Manpower available for military service:

      males age 16–49: 52,449,957 females age 16–49: 52,375,921 (2008 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

      males age 16–49: 39,263,710 females age 16–49: 44,109,056 (2008 est.)

      Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

      male: 1,666,791 female: 1,608,363 (2008 est.)

      Military expenditures:

      2.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

      Transnational Issues

       Brazil

      Disputes - international:

      unruly region at convergence of Argentina-Brazil-Paraguay borders is locus of money laundering, smuggling, arms and illegal narcotics trafficking, and fundraising for extremist organizations; uncontested boundary dispute with Uruguay over Isla Brasilera at the confluence of the Quarai/Cuareim and Invernada rivers, that form a tripoint with Argentina; the Itaipú Dam reservoir covers over a once contested section of Brazil-Paraguay boundary west of Guaira Falls on the Rio Parana; an accord placed the long-disputed Isla Suárez/Ilha de Guajará-Mirim, a fluvial island on the Río Mamoré, under Bolivian administration in 1958, but sovereignty remains in dispute

      Illicit drugs:

      second-largest consumer of cocaine in the world; illicit producer of cannabis; trace amounts of coca cultivation in the Amazon region, 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 Europe; also used by traffickers as a way station for narcotics air transshipments between Peru and Colombia; upsurge in drug-related violence and weapons smuggling; important market for Colombian, Bolivian, and Peruvian cocaine; illicit narcotics proceeds earned in Brazil are often laundered through the financial system; significant illicit financial activity in the Tri-Border Area

      This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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      @British Indian Ocean Territory

      Introduction

       British Indian Ocean Territory

      Background:

      Formerly administered as part of the British Crown Colony of Mauritius, the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) was established as an overseas territory of the UK in 1965. A number of the islands of the territory were later transferred to the Seychelles when it attained independence in 1976. Subsequently, BIOT has consisted only of the six main island groups comprising the Chagos Archipelago. The largest and most southerly of the islands, Diego Garcia, contains СКАЧАТЬ