Highways:
total: 1,230 km
paved: 1,107 km
unpaved: 123 km (1999 est.)

Pipelines:
condensate 319 km; condensate/gas 209 km; gas 1,024 km; liquid
petroleum gas 87 km; oil 702 km; oil/gas/water 41 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Doha, Halul Island, Umm Sa'id (Musay'id)

Merchant marine:
total: 22 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 525,051 GRT/772,635 DWT
foreign-owned: Cambodia 1, Kuwait 1 (2004 est.)
by type: cargo 4, chemical tanker 4, container 8, petroleum tanker
5, roll on/roll off 1

Airports:
4 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 2
over 3,047 m: 2 (2004 est.)

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

Heliports:
1 (2003 est.)

Military Qatar

Military branches:
Land Force, Qatari Amiri Navy (QAN), Amiri Air Force

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

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 324,001
note: includes non-nationals (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 170,266 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 7,496 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$723 million (FY00)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
10% (FY00)

Transnational Issues Qatar

Disputes - international:
none

This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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@Reunion

Introduction Reunion

Background:
The Portuguese discovered the uninhabited island in 1513. From the
17th to the 19th centuries, French immigration, supplemented by
influxes of Africans, Chinese, Malays, and Malabar Indians, gave the
island its ethnic mix. The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 cost
the island its importance as a stopover on the East Indies trade
route.

Geography Reunion

Location:
Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar

Geographic coordinates:
21 06 S, 55 36 E

Map references:
World

Area:
total: 2,517 sq km
water: 10 sq km
land: 2,507 sq km

Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than Rhode Island

Land boundaries:
0 km

Coastline:
207 km

Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Climate:
tropical, but temperature moderates with elevation; c