s):
8 (2000)

Internet users:
800,000 (2003)

Transportation Morocco

Railways:
total: 1,907 km
standard gauge: 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km electrified) (2004)

Highways:
total: 57,694 km
paved: 32,551 km (including 481 km of expressways)
unpaved: 25,143 km (2002)

Pipelines:
gas 695 km; oil 285 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Agadir, Casablanca, Mohammedia, Nador, Safi, Tangier

Merchant marine:
total: 41 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 236,131 GRT/252,367 DWT
by type: cargo 6, chemical tanker 6, container 8, passenger/cargo
13, petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 2, roll on/roll off 5
foreign-owned: 6 (France 1, Germany 2, Switzerland 2, United Kingdom
1) (2005)

Airports:
63 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 25
over 3,047 m: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 38
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 10
914 to 1,523 m: 15
under 914 m: 11 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
1 (2004 est.)

Military Morocco

Military branches:
Royal Armed Forces: Army, Navy, Air Force (Force Aerienne Royale
Marocaine)

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

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 7,908,864 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 6,484,787 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 353,377 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$2,305.6 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
5% (2004)

Transnational Issues Morocco

Disputes - international:
claims and administers Western Sahara whose sovereignty remains
unresolved - UN-administered cease-fire has remained in effect since
September 1991, but attempts to hold a referendum have failed and
parties thus far have rejected all brokered proposals; Morocco
protests Spain's control over the coastal enclaves of Ceuta,
Melilla, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera, the islands of Penon de
Alhucemas and Islas Chafarinas, and surrounding waters; discussions
have not progressed on a comprehensive maritime delimitation setting
limits on exploration and refugee interdiction since Morocco's 2002
rejection of Spain's unilateral designation of a me