total: 35,931 km
paved: 31,583 km (including 608 km of expressways)
unpaved: 4,348 km (2000)

Pipelines:
condensate 25 km; gas 435 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Chi-lung (Keelung), Hua-lien, Kao-hsiung, Su-ao, T'ai-chung

Merchant marine:
total: 130 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 3,417,768 GRT/5,617,318 DWT
by type: bulk 36, cargo 23, chemical tanker 2, combination bulk 3,
container 37, petroleum tanker 17, refrigerated cargo 10, roll
on/roll off 2
registered in other countries: 457 (2004 est.)
foreign-owned: Cuba 1, Hong Kong 4

Airports:
40 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 37
over 3,047 m: 8
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 12

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 3
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 2 (2004 est.)

Heliports:
3 (2003 est.)

Military Taiwan

Military branches:
Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, Coast Guard
Administration, Armed Forces Reserve Command, Combined Service
Forces Command, Armed Forces Police Command

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
19-40 years of age for military service (being lowered to 35 years
of age in July 2005); service obligation 22 months (being shortened
to 18 months in July 2005 and 12 months in 2008) (January 2005)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 6,556,484 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 4,992,737 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 182,677 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$7,611.7 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.7% (2003)

Transnational Issues Taiwan

Disputes - international:
involved in complex dispute with China, Malaysia, Philippines,
Vietnam, and possibly Brunei over the Spratly Islands; the 2002
"Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea" has
eased tensions but falls short of a legally binding "code of
conduct" desired by several of the disputants; Paracel Islands are
occupied by China, but claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam; in 2003, China
and Taiwan asserted claims to the Japanese-administered Senkaku
Islands (Diaoyu Tai) with increased media coverage and protest
actions

Illicit drugs:
regional transit point for heroin and methamphetamine; major
problem with domestic consumption of methamph