)

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 3 (2007)

Railways:

total: 568 km
narrow gauge: 568 km 1.000-m gauge (2006)

Roadways:

total: 7,520 km
paved: 2,376 km
unpaved: 5,144 km (2000)

Waterways:

50 km (seasonally on Mono River depending on rainfall) (2005)

Merchant marine:

total: 10
by type: cargo 9, refrigerated cargo 1
foreign-owned: 6 (Bangladesh 1, Denmark 1, Egypt 1, Lebanon 1, Syria
2) (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Kpeme, Lome

Military
Togo

Military branches:

Togolese Armed Forces: Ground Forces, Togolese Navy (Marine du
Togo), Togolese Air Force (Force Aerienne Togolaise, FAT), National
Gendarmerie (2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for selective compulsory and voluntary military
service; 2-year service obligation (2006)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,365,505
females age 16-49: 1,374,993 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 897,195
females age 16-49: 913,327 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 69,156
female: 69,200 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

1.6% of GDP (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues
Togo

Disputes - international:

in 2001, Benin claimed Togo moved boundary monuments - joint
commission continues to resurvey the boundary; in 2006 14,000
Togolese refugees remain in Benin and Ghana out of the 40,000 who
fled there in 2005

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 5,000 (Ghana)
IDPs: 1,500 (2007)

Illicit drugs:

transit hub for Nigerian heroin and cocaine traffickers; money
laundering not a significant problem

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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@Tokelau

Introduction
Tokelau

Background:

Originally settled by Polynesian emigrants from surrounding island
groups, the Tokelau Islands were made a British protectorate in
1889. They were transferred to New Zealand administration in 1925.
Referenda held in 2006 and 2007 to change the status of the islands
from that of a New Zealand territory to one of free association with
New Zealand did not meet the needed threshold for approval.

Geography
Tokelau

Location: