Merchant marine:
total: 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 16,306 GRT/8,210 DWT
ships by type: cargo 1, passenger 1, passenger-cargo 1 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 129
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 4
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 1
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 34
with unpaved runways over 3 047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 57
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 26 (1995 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 150,000 (1994 est.)

Telephone system: modern system consisting of open wire,
microwave, and radiotelephone communication stations; limited
coaxial cable
domestic: open wire, microwave, radiotelephone communications, and a
domestic satellite system with 8 earth stations
international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
and 1 Arabsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 1

Radios: 1.043 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 9

Televisions: 1.195 million (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary (includes Royal Oman
Police)

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 532,113
males fit for military service: 301,747 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $1.82 billion,
13.7% of GDP (1996)

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@Pacific Ocean
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Map
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Location: 0 00 N, 160 00 W -- body of water between Antarctica,
Asia, Australia, and the Western Hemisphere

Geography
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Location: body of water between Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and
the Western Hemisphere

Geographic coordinates: 0 00 N, 160 00 W

Map references: World

Area:
total area: 165.384 million sq km
comparative area: about 18 times the size of the US; the largest
ocean (followed by the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the
Arctic Ocean); covers about one-third of the global surface; larger
than the total land area of the world
note: includes Bali Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, Bering Sea, Bering
Strait, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Flores Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf
of Tonkin, Java Sea, Philippine Sea, Ross Sea, Savu Sea, Sea of
Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, Timor Sea, and
other tributary water bod