; farm
products--rice, corn, wheat, sugarcane, root crops, milk, buffalo meat;
not self-sufficient in food, particularly in drought years

_#_Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic and
international drug markets

_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-89), $304
million; Western (non-US) countries, ODA and OOF bilateral commitments
(1980-88), $2.0 billion; OPEC bilateral aid (1979-89), $30 million;
Communist countries (1970-89), $286 million

_#_Currency: Nepalese rupee (plural--rupees);
1 Nepalese rupee (NR) = 100 paisa

_#_Exchange rates: Nepalese rupees (NRs) per US$1--30.805 (January
1991), 29.370 (1990), 27.189 (1989), 23.289 (1988), 21.819 (1987), 21.230
(1986), 18.246 (1985)

_#_Fiscal year: 16 July-15 July

_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 52 km (1990), all 0.762-meter narrow gauge; all in
Terai close to Indian border; 10 km from Raxaul to Birganj is
government owned

_#_Highways: 7,080 km total (1990); 2,898 km paved, 1,660 km gravel
or crushed stone; also 2,522 km of seasonally motorable tracks

_#_Civil air: 5 major and 11 minor transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 37 total, 37 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 8 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair
radio communication and broadcast service; international radio
communication service is poor; 50,000 telephones (1990); stations--88
AM, no FM, 1 TV; 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Royal Nepalese Army, Royal Nepalese Army Air Service,
Nepalese Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 4,669,421; 2,420,398 fit for
military service; 233,404 reach military age (17) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $38 million, 2% of GDP (FY91)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 37,290 km2; land area: 33,940 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey

_#_Land boundaries: 1,027 km total; Belgium 450 km, Germany 577 km

_#_Coastline: 451 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: not specific;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: temperate; marine; cool summers and mild winters

_#_Terrain: mostly coastal lowland and reclaimed land (polders); some
hills in southeast

_#_Natural resources: natural gas, crude oil, fertile soil

_#_Land use: arable land 25%; pe