ondensate 370 km; gas 21,446 km; liquid petroleum gas 59 km; oil
6,420 km; oil/gas/water 63 km; refined products 4,474 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Hound Point, Immingham, Milford Haven, Liverpool, London,
Southampton, Sullom Voe, Teesport

Merchant marine:
total: 429 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 9,181,284 GRT/9,566,275 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 18, cargo 55, chemical tanker 48, container
134, liquefied gas 11, passenger 12, passenger/cargo 64, petroleum
tanker 40, refrigerated cargo 19, roll on/roll off 25, vehicle
carrier 3
foreign-owned: 202 (Australia 3, Canada 15, Denmark 38, Finland 2,
Germany 56, Greece 4, Ireland 1, Italy 9, Netherlands 12, Norway 28,
South Africa 4, Sweden 15, Taiwan 7, United States 8)
registered in other countries: 446 (2005)

Airports:
471 (2004 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 334
over 3,047 m: 8
2,438 to 3,047 m: 33
1,524 to 2,437 m: 150
914 to 1,523 m: 86
under 914 m: 57 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 137
2438 to 3047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 23
under 914 m: 112 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
11 (2004 est.)

Military United Kingdom

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

Military service age and obligation:
16 years of age for voluntary military service (January 2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 16-49: 14,607,724 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 16-49: 12,046,268 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$42,836.5 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.4% (2003)

Transnational Issues United Kingdom

Disputes - international:
in 2003, Gibraltar residents voted overwhelmingly by referendum to
remain a British colony and against a "total shared sovereignty"
arrangement while demanding participation in talks between the UK
and Spain; Spain disapproves of UK plans to grant Gibraltar greater
autonomy; Mauritius and Seychelles claim the Chagos Archipelago
(British Indian Ocean Territory), and its former inhabitants since
their eviction in 1965; most Chagosians reside in Mauritius, and in
2001 were granted UK citizenship but no right to patriation in the
UK; UK rejects sovereignty talks requested by Argentina, which still
claims the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) and South Georgia and
the South Sandwich Islands; terr