with runway over 3,659 m; 35 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 65 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: phone density is 10.5 phones per 100 residents
(October 1990); 3.1 million subscribers; exchanges are 86% automatic
(February 1990); stations--29 AM, 29 FM, 37 (5 Soviet relays) TV;
9.6 million TVs
_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: External Front Ground Forces, Navy, Air and Air Defense
Forces, Internal Defense Forces (WOW), Territorial Defense Forces (JOT),
Border Guards (WOP), Paramilitary Forces, Civil Defense (OC)
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 9,571,708; 7,543,565 fit for
military service; 302,000 reach military age (19) annually
_#_Defense expenditures: 22.3 trillion zlotych, NA% of GDP (1991);
note--conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the
official administratively set exchange rate would produce misleading
results
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 92,080 km2; land area: 91,640 km2; includes Azores and
Madeira Islands
_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Indiana
_#_Land boundary: 1,214 km with Spain
_#_Coastline: 1,793 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;
Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Disputes: sovereignty over Timor Timur (East Timor Province)
disputed with Indonesia
_#_Climate: maritime temperate; cool and rainy in north, warmer and
drier in south
_#_Terrain: mountainous north of the Tagus, rolling plains in south
_#_Natural resources: fish, forests (cork), tungsten, iron ore,
uranium ore, marble
_#_Land use: arable land 32%; permanent crops 6%; meadows and
pastures 6%; forest and woodland 40%; other 16%; includes irrigated
7%
_#_Environment: Azores subject to severe earthquakes
_#_Note: Azores and Madeira Islands occupy strategic locations
along western sea approaches to Strait of Gibraltar
_*_People
_#_Population: 10,387,617 (July 1991), growth rate 0.3% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 12 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Net migration rate: 1 migrant/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Infant mortality rate: 13 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)
_#_Life expectancy at birth: 71 years male, 78 years female (1991)
_#_Total fertility rate: 1.5 children born/woman (1991)
_#_Nationality: noun--Portuguese (sing. and pl.);
adjective--Portuguese
_#_Ethn
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