unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5 (1995 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 54,900 (1989 est.)

Telephone system: fair system
domestic: microwave radio relay and radiotelephone communications
stations
international: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 10, FM 0, shortwave 0

Radios: 2.04 million (1992 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 9 (1987 est.)

Televisions: 193,000 (1992 est.)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy, Air Wing

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 4,359,286
males fit for military service: 2,365,157 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $56 million, 1.7%
of budget (FY93/94)

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@Ukraine
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Map
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Location: 49 00 N, 32 00 E -- Eastern Europe, bordering the Black
Sea, between Poland and Russia

Flag
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Description: two equal horizontal bands of azure (top) and golden
yellow represent grainfields under a blue sky

Geography
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Location: Eastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Poland
and Russia

Geographic coordinates: 49 00 N, 32 00 E

Map references: Commonwealth of Independent States

Area:
total area: 603,700 sq km
land area: 603,700 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas

Land boundaries:
total: 4,558 km
border countries: Belarus 891 km, Hungary 103 km, Moldova 939 km,
Poland 428 km, Romania (southwest) 169 km, Romania (west) 362 km,
Russia 1,576 km, Slovakia 90 km

Coastline: 2,782 km

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

International disputes: certain territory of Moldova and Ukraine -
including Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina - are considered by
Bucharest as historically a part of Romania; this territory was
incorporated into the former Soviet Union following the
Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1940; dispute with Romania over
continental shelf of the Black Sea under which signifcant gas and
oil deposits may exist; potential dispute with Russia over Crimea;
has made no territorial claim in Antarctica (but has reserved the
right to do so) and does not recognize the claims of any other nation

Climate: temperate continental; Mediterranean only on the southern