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domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter
international: country code - 237; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); fiber optic submarine cable (SAT-3/WASC)
provides connectivity to Europe and Asia

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 3 (2002)

Radios:
2.27 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
1 (2002)

Televisions:
450,000 (1997)

Internet country code:
.cm

Internet hosts:
479 (2004)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
1 (2002)

Internet users:
60,000 (2002)
note: Cameroon also had more than 100 cyber-cafes in 2001

Transportation Cameroon

Railways:
total: 1,008 km
narrow gauge: 1,008 km 1.000-m gauge (2003)

Highways:
total: 34,300 km
paved: 4,288 km
unpaved: 30,012 km (1999 est.)

Waterways:
navigation mainly on Benue River; limited during rainy season (2004)

Pipelines:
gas 90 km; liquid petroleum gas 9 km; oil 1,120 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Bonaberi, Douala, Garoua, Kribi, Tiko

Merchant marine:
total: 1 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 169,593 GRT/357,023 DWT
by type: petroleum tanker 1 (2004 est.)

Airports:
47 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 11
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2004 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 36
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 20
under 914 m: 9 (2004 est.)

Military Cameroon

Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry), Air Force

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription
(1999)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 3,898,944 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,979,151 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 184,054 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$189.2 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.4% (2003)

Transnational Issues Cameroon

Disputes - international:
ICJ ruled in 2002 on the entire Cameroon-Nigeria land and maritime
boundary but the parties formed a Joint Border Commission to resolve
differences bilaterally and have commenced with demarcation in
less-contested sections of the boundary, starting in Lake Chad in
the north; the ICF ruled on an equidistance set