over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2007)

Pipelines:

gas 43 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435 m
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050 m
note: rail system became unusable because of damage done during
fighting in the 1980s and in 2006 (2006)

Roadways:

total: 6,970 km (includes 170 km of expressways) (2005)

Merchant marine:

total: 33
by type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 13, carrier 11, passenger/cargo 1,
refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 2, vehicle carrier 2
foreign-owned: 4 (Greece 2, Syria 2)
registered in other countries: 55 (Barbados 1, Cambodia 8, Comoros
4, Cyprus 1, Egypt 1, Georgia 4, Honduras 1, Italy 1, North Korea 1,
Liberia 2, Malta 11, Mongolia 2, Panama 5, Saint Vincent and the
Grenadines 6, Sierra Leone 1, Syria 3, Togo 1, unknown 2) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Beirut, Tripoli

Military
Lebanon

Military branches:

Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army (includes Navy), Air Force (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18-30 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription
(2007)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,106,879
females age 16-49: 1,122,595 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 934,828
females age 16-49: 948,327 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 32,815
female: 31,610 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

3.1% of GDP (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues
Lebanon

Disputes - international:

lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary,
portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several
sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms
area in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights; the roughly 2,000-strong
UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been in place since 1978

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 405,425 (Palestinian refugees
(UNRWA)); 50,000-60,000 (Iraq)
IDPs: 17,000 (1975-90 civil war, Israeli invasions); 200,000
(July-August 2006 war) (2007)

Illicit drugs:

cannabis cultivation dramatically reduced to 2,500 hectares in 2002
despite continued significant cannabis consumption; opium poppy
cultivation minimal; small amounts of Latin American cocaine and
Southwest Asian heroin transit