35-m gauge (2,893 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 99 km 0.760-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 55,408 km
paved: 55,408 km (including 499 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (2000)

Waterways:
664 km (on Elbe, Vlatava, and Oder rivers) (2004)

Pipelines:
gas 7,020 km; oil 547 km; refined products 94 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem

Airports:
120 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 44
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 9
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 17 (2004 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 76
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 27
under 914 m: 48 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
2 (2003 est.)

Military Czech Republic

Military branches:
Czech Army: Ground Forces, Air Forces, Special Forces

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18-50 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
service obligation - 12 months; conscription due to end by 2005
(January 2004)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 2,623,386 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,003,748 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 67,195 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$1,190.2 million (FY01)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.1% (FY01)

Transnational Issues Czech Republic

Disputes - international:
Liechtenstein's royal family claims restitution for 1,600 sq km of
land in the Czech Republic confiscated in 1918; individual Sudeten
Germans seek restitution for property confiscated in connection with
their expulsion after World War II; Austria has minor dispute with
Czech Republic over the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant

Illicit drugs:
transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and minor transit
point for Latin American cocaine to Western Europe; producer of
synthetic drugs for local and regional markets; susceptible to money
laundering related to drug trafficking, organized crime

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@Denmark

Introduction Denmark

Background:
Once the seat of Viking raiders and later a major north European
power, Denmark has evolved into a modern, prosperous nation that is
participating in the general political an