est.)

Television broadcast stations: 13 (1990 est.)

Televisions: 4.58 million (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Paramilitary
Forces, Civil Defense

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 5,572,383
males fit for military service: 4,693,376
males reach military age (20) annually: 198,125 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $885 million,
3.0% of GDP (1995)

Original publicaton at
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/nsolo/wfb-all.htm (June 17,
1997).
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@Russia
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Map
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Location: 60 00 N, 100 00 E -- Northern Asia (that part west of
the Urals is sometimes included with Europe), bordering the Arctic
Ocean, between Europe and the North Pacific Ocean

Flag
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Description: three equal horizontal bands of white (top), blue,
and red

Geography
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Location: Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals is sometimes
included with Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe
and the North Pacific Ocean

Geographic coordinates: 60 00 N, 100 00 E

Map references: Asia

Area:
total area: 17,075,200 sq km
land area: 16,995,800 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than 1.8 times the size of the US

Land boundaries:
total: 19,913 km
border countries: Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km, China
(southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 290 km, Finland
1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19 km,
Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 227 km, Mongolia 3,441
km, Norway 167 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 206 km, Ukraine 1,576
km

Coastline: 37,653 km

Maritime claims:
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: inherited disputes from former USSR
including sections of the boundary with China; islands of Etorofu,
Kunashiri, and Shikotan and the Habomai group occupied by the Soviet
Union in 1945, administered by Russia, claimed by Japan; maritime
dispute with Norway over portion of the Barents Sea; Caspian Sea
boundaries are not yet determined; potential dispute with Ukraine
over Crimea; Estonia claims over 2,000 sq km of Russian territory in
the Narva and Pechora regions; the Abrene section of the border