Radio broadcast stations:
AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)

Radios:
835,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
26 (plus 27 repeaters) (1997)

Televisions:
1.323 million (1997)

Internet country code:
.gt

Internet hosts:
20,360 (2003)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
5 (2000)

Internet users:
400,000 (2002)

Transportation Guatemala

Railways:
total: 886 km
narrow gauge: 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2004)

Highways:
total: 14,118 km
paved: 4,871 km (including 74 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,247 km (1999)

Waterways:
990 km
note: 260 km navigable year round; additional 730 km navigable
during high-water season (2004)

Pipelines:
oil 480 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Puerto Quetzal, Santo Tomas de Castilla

Airports:
452 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 441
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 109
under 914 m: 323 (2004 est.)

Military Guatemala

Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 30 months (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 3,020,292 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 2,106,847 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 161,964 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$201.9 million (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.8% (2003)

Transnational Issues Guatemala

Disputes - international:
Guatemalan squatters continue to settle in the rain forests of
Belize's border region; OAS is attempting to revive the 2002 failed
Differendum that created a small adjustment to land boundary, a
Guatemalan maritime corridor in Caribbean, a joint ecological park
for the disputed Sapodilla Cays, and a substantial US-UK financial
package; Guatemalans enter Mexico illegally seeking work or transit
to the US

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 250,000 (government's scorched-earth offensive in 1980s
against indigenous people) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
major transit country for cocaine and heroin; minor producer of
illicit opium poppy an