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s) _#_Ports: Tobruk, Tripoli, Banghazi, Misratah, Marsa el Brega _#_Merchant marine: 30 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 807,539 GRT/1,452,847 DWT; includes 3 short-sea passenger, 11 cargo, 4 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 11 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 chemical tanker _#_Civil air: 59 major transport aircraft _#_Airports: 131 total, 123 usable; 53 with permanent-surface runways; 7 with runways over 3,659 m; 31 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 44 with runways 1,220-2,439 m _#_Telecommunications: modern telecommunications system using radio relay, coaxial cable, tropospheric scatter, and domestic satellite stations; 370,000 telephones; stations--18 AM, 3 FM, 13 TV; satellite earth stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, and 14 domestic; submarine cables to France and Italy; radio relay to Tunisia; tropospheric scatter to Greece; planned ARABSAT and Intersputnik satellite stations _*_Defense Forces _#_Branches: Armed Peoples of the Libyan Arab Jamahariya (includes Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Command), National Police _#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,023,335; 603,886 fit for military service; 52,059 reach military age (17) annually; conscription now being implemented _#_Defense expenditures: $NA, 11.1% of GNP (1987) _%_ _@_Liechtenstein _*_Geography _#_Total area: 160 km2; land area: 160 km2 _#_Comparative area: about 0.9 times the size of Washington, DC _#_Land boundaries: 78 km total; Austria 37 km, Switzerland 41 km _#_Coastline: none--landlocked _#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked _#_Climate: continental; cold, cloudy winters with frequent snow or rain; cool to moderately warm, cloudy, humid summers _#_Terrain: mostly mountainous (Alps) with Rhine Valley in western third _#_Natural resources: hydroelectric potential _#_Land use: arable land 25%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 38%; forest and woodland 19%; other 18% _#_Environment: variety of microclimatic variations based on elevation _#_Note: landlocked _*_People _#_Population: 28,476 (July 1991), growth rate 0.6% (1991) _#_Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1991) _#_Death rate: 7 deaths/1,000 population (1991) _#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991) _#_Infant mortality rate: 5 deaths/1,000 live births (1991) _#_Life expectancy at birth: 73 years male, 81 years female (1991) _#_T
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