uxembourg franc is at par with the
Belgian franc, which circulates freely in Luxembourg

_#_Fiscal year: calendar year

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: Luxembourg National Railways (CFL) operates 270 km
1.435-meter standard gauge; 162 km double track; 162 km electrified

_#_Highways: 5,108 km total; 4,995 km paved, 57 km gravel, 56 km
earth; about 80 km limited access divided highway

_#_Inland waterways: 37 km; Moselle River

_#_Pipelines: refined products, 48 km

_#_Ports: Mertert (river port)

_#_Merchant marine: 1 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker
(1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,731 GRT/2,460 DWT

_#_Civil air: 13 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways less than 1,220 m

_#_Telecommunications: adequate and efficient system, mainly buried
cables; 230,000 telephones; stations--2 AM, 4 FM, 6 TV; 2 communication
satellite earth stations operating in EUTELSAT and domestic systems

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, National Gendarmerie

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 100,476; 83,724 fit for
military service; 2,297 reach military age (19) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $90 million, 1.2% of GDP (1990)
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_@_Macau
(overseas territory of Portugal)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 16 km2; land area: 16 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC

_#_Land boundary: 0.34 km with China

_#_Coastline: 40 km

_#_Maritime claims: not known

_#_Disputes: scheduled to become a Special Administrative Region of
China in 1999

_#_Climate: subtropical; marine with cool winters, warm summers

_#_Terrain: generally flat

_#_Natural resources: negligible

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: essentially urban; one causeway and one bridge connect
the two islands to the peninsula on mainland

_#_Note: 27 km west southwest of Hong Kong on the southeast coast of
China

_*_People
_#_Population: 446,262 (July 1991), growth rate 1.0% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 15 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 5 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

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

_#_Infant mortality rate: 7 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 75 years male, 79 years female (199