em integrated with that of the US by
high-capacity submarine cable and Intelsat with high-speed data
capability
domestic: digital telephone system; cellular telephone service
international: country code - 1-787, 939; submarine cables provide
connectivity to the US, Caribbean, Central and South America;
satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 74, FM 53, shortwave 0 (2005)

Radios:

2.7 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:

32 (2006)

Televisions:

1.021 million (1997)

Internet country code:

.pr

Internet hosts:

404 (2008)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

76 (2000)

Internet users:

1 million (2007)

Transportation
Puerto Rico

Airports:

29 (2007)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 17
over 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 5 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 12
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 10 (2007)

Railways:

total: 96 km
narrow gauge: 96 km 1.000-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 26,186 km
paved: 24,877 km (includes 427 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,309 km (2007)

Merchant marine:

total: 3
by type: roll on/roll off 3
foreign-owned: 3 (US 3)
registered in other countries: 1 (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
1) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Guayanilla, Mayaguez, San Juan

Military
Puerto Rico

Military branches:

no regular indigenous military forces; paramilitary National Guard,
Police Force

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 30,760
female: 29,469 (2008 est.)

Military - note:

defense is the responsibility of the US

Transnational Issues
Puerto Rico

Disputes - international:

increasing numbers of illegal migrants from the Dominican Republic
cross the Mona Passage to Puerto Rico each year looking for work

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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@Qatar

Introduction
Qatar

Background:

Ruled by the Al-Thani family since the mid-1800s, Qatar transformed
itself from a poor British protectorate noted mainly for pearling
into an independent state with significant oil and natural gas
revenues. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Qatari economy
was crippled by a continuous siphoning off of petroleum revenues by
the Amir, who had ruled th