of 2.9 million metric tons, seventh-largest in world

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $3.9
billion; non-US countries (1970-89), $3.0 billion

_#_Currency: South Korean won (plural--won);
1 South Korean won (W) = 100 chon (theoretical)

_#_Exchange rates: South Korean won (W) per US$1--718.14 (January
1991), 707.76 (1990), 671.46 (1989), 731.47 (1988), 822.57 (1987), 881.45
(1986), 870.02 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 3,106 km operating in 1983; 3,059 km 1.435-meter
standard gauge, 47 km 0.610-meter narrow gauge, 712 km double track,
418 km electrified; government owned

_#_Highways: 62,936 km total (1982); 13,476 km national highway,
49,460 km provincial and local roads

_#_Inland waterways: 1,609 km; use restricted to small native craft

_#_Pipelines: 455 km refined products

_#_Ports: Pusan, Inchon, Kunsan, Mokpo, Ulsan

_#_Merchant marine: 439 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 7,182,519
GRT/11,906,897 DWT; includes 2 short-sea passenger, 138 cargo, 45
container, 11 refrigerated cargo, 11 vehicle carrier, 48 petroleum, oils,
and lubricants (POL) tanker, 10 chemical tanker, 13 liquefied gas, 7
combination ore/oil, 146 bulk, 7 combination bulk, 1 multifunction
large-load carrier

_#_Civil air: 93 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 110 total, 102 usable; 60 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 21 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 17 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: adequate domestic and international services;
4,800,000 telephones; stations--79 AM, 46 FM, 256 TV (57 of 1 kW or
greater); satellite earth stations--2 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Indian
Ocean INTELSAT

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy (including Marines), Air Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 12,859,511; 8,294,624 fit for
military service; 429,088 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $10.4 billion, 4.5% of GNP (1991)
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_@_Kuwait
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 17,820 km2; land area: 17,820 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than New Jersey

_#_Land boundaries: 462 km total; Iraq 240 km, Saudi Arabia 222 km

_#_Coastline: 499 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: not specific;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: Iraqi forces invaded and occupied Kuwait from
2 August 1990 until 27 February 1991; in April 1991 official