Arabsat; microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 1, shortwave 0

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 10

Televisions: 350,000 (1992 est.)

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

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 2,985,764
males fit for military service: 1,685,517
males reach military age (18) annually: 145,161 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP

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Map
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Location: 0 00 N, 25 00 E -- Central Africa, northeast of Angola

Flag
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Description: light green with a yellow disk in the center bearing
a black arm holding a red flaming torch; the flames of the torch are
blowing away from the hoist side; uses the popular pan-African
colors of Ethiopia

Geography
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Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola

Geographic coordinates: 0 00 N, 25 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total area: 2,345,410 sq km
land area: 2,267,600 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than one-fourth the size of US

Land boundaries:
total: 10,271 km
border countries: Angola 2,511 km, Burundi 233 km, Central African
Republic 1,577 km, Congo 2,410 km, Rwanda 217 km, Sudan 628 km,
Uganda 765 km, Zambia 1,930 km

Coastline: 37 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: boundaries with neighbors
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake
Tanganyika may no longer be indefinite since it has been informally
reported that the indefinite section of the Zaire-Zambia boundary
has been settled; long section with Congo along the Congo river is
indefinite (no division of the river or its islands has been made)

Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler
and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern
highlands; north of Equator - wet season April to October, dry
season December to February; south of Equator - wet season November
to March, dry season April to October

Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in
east
lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
highest point: Margherita Peak (Mount Stanley) 5,110 m

Natural resources: cobalt, copper, cadmium, petroleum, industrial
and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, ma