jor transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 9 total, 8 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m; none under the direct control of the
Lebanese Government

_#_Telecommunications: rebuilding program disrupted; had fair system
of radio relay, cable; 325,000 telephones; stations--5 AM, 3 FM, 15 TV;
1 inactive Indian Ocean INTELSAT satellite earth station; 3 submarine
coaxial cables; radio relay to Jordan and Syria, inoperable

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army (includes Navy and Air Force)

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 725,974; 449,912 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $168 million, 7.3% of GDP (1991)
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_@_Lesotho
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 30,350 km2; land area: 30,350 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland

_#_Land boundary: 909 km with South Africa

_#_Coastline: none--landlocked

_#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked

_#_Climate: temperate; cool to cold, dry winters; hot, wet summers

_#_Terrain: mostly highland with some plateaus, hills, and mountains

_#_Natural resources: some diamonds and other minerals, water,
agricultural and grazing land

_#_Land use: arable land 10%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
pastures 66%; forest and woodland 0%; other 24%

_#_Environment: population pressure forcing settlement in marginal
areas results in overgrazing, severe soil erosion, soil exhaustion;
desertification

_#_Note: landlocked; surrounded by South Africa; Highlands Water
Project will control, store, and redirect water to South Africa

_*_People
_#_Population: 1,801,174 (July 1991), growth rate 2.6% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 36 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 78 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 59 years male, 63 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 4.8 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Mosotho (sing.), Basotho (pl.);
adjective--Basotho

_#_Ethnic divisions: Sotho 99.7%; Europeans 1,600, Asians 800

_#_Religion: Christian 80%, rest indigenous beliefs

_#_Language: Sesotho (southern Sotho) and English (official); also
Zulu and Xhosa

_#_Literacy: 59% (male 44%, female 68%) age 15 and over can
read and write (1966)

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