Cyprus 5, Norway 6, Sweden 1,
United Kingdom 11)
registered in other countries: 2,208 (2005)

Airports:
80 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 66
over 3,047 m: 5
2,438 to 3,047 m: 16
1,524 to 2,437 m: 20
914 to 1,523 m: 16
under 914 m: 9 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 11 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
7 (2004 est.)

Military Greece

Military branches:
Hellenic Army, Hellenic Navy, Hellenic Air Force (Polemiki
Aeroporia, EPA)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service; during wartime the
law allows for recruitment after reaching January of the year of
inductee's 18th birthday, thus including 17 year olds; 17 years of
age for volunteers; conscript service obligation - 12 months for the
Army and Air Force, 15 months for Navy (2005)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 2,459,988 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 2,018,557 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 58,399 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$5.89 billion (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
4.3% (2003)

Transnational Issues Greece

Disputes - international:
Greece and Turkey continue discussions to resolve their complex
maritime, air, territorial, and boundary disputes in the Aegean Sea;
Cyprus question with Turkey; Greece rejects the use of the name
Macedonia or Republic of Macedonia

Illicit drugs:
a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis and heroin
from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor
chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is
consumed in Greece; money laundering related to drug trafficking and
organized crime

This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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@Greenland

Introduction Greenland

Background:
The world's largest island, Greenland is about 81% ice-capped.
Vikings reached the island in the 10th century from Iceland; Danish
colonization began in the 18th century and Greenland was made an
integral part of Denmark in 1953. It joined the European Community
(now the European Union) with Denmark in 1973 but withdrew in 1985
over a dispute over stringent fishing qu