July 1995, Sudan had a fiscal year that began on 1
July and ended on 30 June; as a transition to their new fiscal year,
a six-month budget was implemented for 1 July - 31 December 1995;
the new calendar year (1 January - 31 December) fiscal year became
effective 1 January 1996

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 5,516 km
narrow gauge: 4,800 km 1.067-m gauge; 716 km 1.6096-m gauge
plantation line

Highways:
total: 19,885 km
paved: 1,989 km
unpaved: 17,896 km (1986 est.)

Waterways: 5,310 km navigable

Pipelines: refined products 815 km

Ports: Juba, Khartoum, Kusti, Malakal, Nimule, Port Sudan, Sawakin

Merchant marine:
total: 5 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 43,024 GRT/57,985 DWT
ships by type: cargo 3, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2 (1995 est.)

Airports:
total: 56
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 8
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 7
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 13
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 25 (1995 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 77,215 (1983 est.)

Telephone system: large, well-equipped system by African
standards, but barely adequate and poorly maintained by modern
standards
domestic: consists of microwave radio relay, cable, radiotelephone
communications, tropospheric scatter, and a domestic satellite
system with 14 earth stations
international: satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic
Ocean) and 1 Arabsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 11, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 6.67 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 3

Televisions: 2.06 million (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Popular Defense Force Militia

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 7,152,884
males fit for military service: 4,399,445
males reach military age (18) annually: 329,460 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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@Suriname
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Map
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Location: 4 00 N, 56 00 W -- Northern South America, bordering the
North Atlantic Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana

Flag
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Description: five horizontal bands of green (top, double width),
white, red (quadruple width), white, and green (double width); there
is a large yellow five-pointed star centered i