al (Mt) = 100 centavos

Exchange rates: meticais (Mt) per US$1 - 10,908.0 (December 1995),
9,024.3 (1995), 6,038.6 (1994), 3,874.2 (1993), 2,516.5 (1992),
1,434.5 (1991)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 3,131 km
narrow gauge: 2,988 km 1.067-m gauge; 143 km 0.762-m gauge (1994)

Highways:
total: 27,287 km
paved: 4,693 km
unpaved: 22,594 km (1991 est.)
note: highway traffic impeded by land mines not removed at end of
civil war

Waterways: about 3,750 km of navigable routes

Pipelines: crude oil (not operating) 306 km; petroleum products
289 km

Ports: Beira, Inhambane, Maputo, Nacala, Pemba

Merchant marine:
total: 4 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,694 GRT/9,724
DWT (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 131
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 4
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 10
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5
with paved runways under 914 m: 67
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 12
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 32 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 59,000 (1983 est.)

Telephone system: fair system of tropospheric scatter, open-wire
lines, and microwave radio relay
domestic: microwave radio relay and tropospheric scatter
international: satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (2 Atlantic
Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 29, FM 4, shortwave 0

Radios: 700,000 (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1

Televisions: 44,000 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Naval Command, Air and Air Defense Forces, Militia

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 3,767,855
males fit for military service: 2,162,388 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $84 million, 5.3%
of GDP (1994)

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@Namibia
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Map
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Location: 22 00 S, 17 00 E -- Southern Africa, bordering the South
Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa

Flag
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Description: a large blue triangle with a yellow sunburst fills
the upper left section, and an equal green triangle (solid) fills
the lower right section; the triangles are separated by a red stripe
that is contrasted by two narrow white-edge borders

Geography
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Location: Southern