m; 5 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 27 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: fair system of troposcatter, open-wire lines,
and radio relay; 57,400 telephones; stations--15 AM, 3 FM, 1 TV;
earth stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 3 domestic

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Mozambique Armed Forces (including Army, Naval
Command, Air Defense Forces, Border Guards), Militia

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 3,407,234; 1,957,123 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, 8.4% of GDP (1987)
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_@_Namibia
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 824,290 km2; land area: 823,290 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than half the size of Alaska

_#_Land boundaries: 3,935 km total; Angola 1,376 km, Botswana
1,360 km, South Africa 966 km, Zambia 233 km

_#_Coastline: 1,489 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: short section of boundary with Botswana is indefinite;
quadripoint with Botswana, Zambia, and Zimbabwe is in disagreement;
claim by Namibia to Walvis Bay and 12 offshore islands administered
by South Africa

_#_Climate: desert; hot, dry; rainfall sparse and erratic

_#_Terrain: mostly high plateau; Namib Desert along coast; Kalahari
Desert in east

_#_Natural resources: diamonds, copper, uranium, gold, lead, tin,
zinc, salt, vanadium, natural gas, fish; suspected deposits of oil,
natural gas, coal, and iron ore

_#_Land use: arable land 1%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 64%; forest and woodland 22%; other 13%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: inhospitable with very limited natural water
resources; desertification

_#_Note: Walvis Bay area is an exclave of South Africa in Namibia

_*_People
_#_Population: 1,520,504 (July 1991), growth rate 3.6% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 45 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: 69 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 58 years male, 63 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 6.6 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Namibian(s); adjective--Namibian

_#_Ethnic divisions: black 86%, white 6.6%, mixed 7.4%; about 50%
of the population belong to the Ovambo tribe and 9% from the Kavangos
tribe

_#_Religion: predominantly Christian

_#_Lang