Highways:
total: 3,440 km
paved: 1,692 km
unpaved: 1,748 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
203 km
note: 122 km navigable by motorized craft and 200-metric-ton barges
(2004)

Ports and harbors:
Lambasa, Lautoka, Levuka, Malau, Savusavu, Suva, Vuda

Merchant marine:
total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 6,372 GRT/7,453 DWT
foreign-owned: Australia 1, Singapore 1 (2004 est.)
by type: chemical tanker 1, passenger 1

Airports:
28 (2003 est.)

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

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 25
914 to 1,523 m: 6
under 914 m: 19 (2004 est.)

Military Fiji

Military branches:
Republic of Fiji Military Forces (RFMF): Land Forces, Naval Division

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service (2001)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 239,221 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 131,349 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 9,302 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$34 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.2% (FY02)

Transnational Issues Fiji

Disputes - international:
none

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@Finland

Introduction Finland

Background:
Finland was a province and then a grand duchy under Sweden from the
12th to the 19th centuries and an autonomous grand duchy of Russia
after 1809. It won its complete independence in 1917. During World
War II, it was able to successfully defend its freedom and resist
invasions by the Soviet Union - albeit with some loss of territory.
In the subsequent half century, the Finns made a remarkable
transformation from a farm/forest economy to a diversified modern
industrial economy; per capita income is now on par with Western
Europe. As a member of the European Union, Finland was the only
Nordic state to join the euro system at its initiation in January
1999.

Geography Finland

Location:
Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and
Gulf of Finland, between Sweden and Russia

Geographic coordinates:
64 00 N, 26 00 E

Map references:
Europe

Area:
total: 338,145