ons for telephones had not
been satisfied as of January 1991; electronic mail services have
been established in Kiev, Odessa, and Luhans'k by Sprint
domestic: an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in
Kiev (Kyyiv) and allows direct dialing of international calls
through Kiev's digital exchange
international: calls to other CIS countries are carried by landline
or microwave radio relay; calls to 167 other countries are carried
by satellite or by the 150 leased lines through the Moscow
international gateway switch; satellite earth stations - NA
Intelsat, 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic and Indian Ocean Regions), and NA
Intersputnik

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA; note - there
are at least two radio broadcast stations of NA type

Radios: 15 million (1990)

Television broadcast stations: at least 2

Televisions: 17.3 million (1992)

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Internal Troops,
National Guard, Border Troops

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 12,388,788
males fit for military service: 9,716,127
males reach military age (18) annually: 362,000 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: 1.35 billion hryvni, less than 2% of GDP
(Ukrainian Government's forecast for 1996); note - conversion of
defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate
could produce misleading results

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@United Arab Emirates
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Map
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Location: 24 00 N, 54 00 E -- Middle East, bordering the Gulf of
Oman and the Persian Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia

Flag
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Description: three equal horizontal bands of green (top), white,
and black with a thicker vertical red band on the hoist side

Geography
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Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian
Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia

Geographic coordinates: 24 00 N, 54 00 E

Map references: Middle East

Area:
total area: 75,581 sq km
land area: 75,581 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Maine

Land boundaries:
total: 867 km
border countries: Oman 410 km, Saudi Arabia 457 km

Coastline: 1,318 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm