by rubber and timber
companies

_#_Ports: Monrovia, Buchanan, Greenville, Harper (or Cape Palmas)

_#_Merchant marine: 1,563 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
53,053,254 DWT/94,597,871 DWT; includes 18 passenger, 1 short-sea
passenger, 156 cargo, 47 refrigerated cargo, 15 roll-on/roll-off cargo,
67 vehicle carrier, 74 container, 5 barge carrier, 450 petroleum, oils,
and lubricants (POL) tanker, 104 chemical, 60 combination ore/oil, 44
liquefied gas, 6 specialized tanker, 485 bulk, 1 multifunction large-load
carrier, 30 combination bulk; note--a flag of convenience registry; all
ships are foreign owned; the top four owning flags are US 19%, Japan 17%,
Hong Kong 12%, and Norway 10%; China owns at least 28 ships, Bulgaria
owns 3, and Poland owns 1

_#_Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 75 total, 58 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 4 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: telephone and telegraph service via radio relay
network; main center is Monrovia; 8,500 telephones; stations--3 AM, 4 FM,
5 TV; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Armed Forces of Liberia (includes Army, Navy, Air Force),
Coast Guard, National Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 648,636; 346,349 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, 2.4% of GDP (1987)
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_@_Libya
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 1,759,540 km2; land area: 1,759,540 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Alaska

_#_Land boundaries: 4,383 km total; Algeria 982 km, Chad 1,055 km,
Egypt 1,150 km, Niger 354 km, Sudan 383 km, Tunisia 459 km

_#_Coastline: 1,770 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 12 nm;

Gulf of Sidra closing line: 32o 30%19 N

_#_Disputes: claims and occupies the 100,000 km2 Aozou Strip in
northern Chad; maritime boundary dispute with Tunisia; Libya claims about
19,400 km2 in northern Niger; Libya claims about 19,400 km2 in
southeastern Algeria

_#_Climate: Mediterranean along coast; dry, extreme desert interior

_#_Terrain: mostly barren, flat to undulating plains, plateaus,
depressions

_#_Natural resources: crude oil, natural gas, gypsum

_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
8%; forest and woodland 0%; other 91%; includes irrigated NEGL%

_#_Environment: hot, dry, dust-laden ghibli