d, 500 km gravel or natural surface (est.)
Pipelines:
crude oil 235 km, natural gas 400 km
Ports:
Doha, Umm Sa'id, Halul Island
Merchant marine:
23 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 473,042 GRT/716,039 DWT; includes 14
cargo, 5 container, 3 petroleum tanker, 1 refrigerated cargo
Civil air:
3 major transport aircraft
Airports:
4 total, 4 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over
3,659 m; none with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
Telecommunications:
modern system centered in Doha; 110,000 telephones; tropospheric scatter to
Bahrain; radio relay to Saudi Arabia and UAE; submarine cable to Bahrain and
UAE; broadcast stations - 2 AM, 3 FM, 3 TV; satellite earth stations - 1
Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT

:Qatar Defense Forces

Branches:
Army, Navy, Air Force, Public Security
Manpower availability:
males 15-49, 211,812; 112,250 fit for military service; 3,414 reach military
age (18) annually
Defense expenditures:
exchange rate conversion - $NA, NA%, of GDP

:Reunion Geography

Total area:
2,510 km2
Land area:
2,500 km2
Comparative area:
slightly smaller than Rhode Island
Land boundaries:
none
Coastline:
201 km
Maritime claims:
Exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
Territorial sea:
12 nm
Disputes:
none
Climate:
tropical, but moderates with elevation; cool and dry from May to November,
hot and rainy from November to April
Terrain:
mostly rugged and mountainous; fertile lowlands along coast
Natural resources:
fish, arable land
Land use:
arable land 20%; permanent crops 2%; meadows and pastures 4%; forest and
woodland 35%; other 39%; includes irrigated 2%
Environment:
periodic devastating cyclones
Note:
located 750 km east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean

:Reunion People

Population:
626,414 (July 1992), growth rate 2.1% (1992)
Birth rate:
26 births/1,000 population (1992)
Death rate:
5 deaths/1,000 population (1992)
Net migration rate:
0 migrants/1,000 population (1992)
Infant mortality rate:
8 deaths/1,000 live births (1992)
Life expectancy at birth:
70 years male, 77 years female (1992)
Total fertility rate:
2.8 children born/woman (1992)
Nationality:
noun - Reunionese (singular and plural); adjective - Reunionese
Ethnic divisions:
most of the population i