rcraft

_#_Airports: 23 total, 22 usable; 1 with permanent-surfaced runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: system consists of carrier-equipped open-wire
lines and low-capacity radio relay links; 15,400 telephones;
stations--6 AM, 6 FM, 10 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Umbutfo Swaziland Defense Force, Royal Swaziland Police
Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 185,562; 107,254 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $8 million, 1.3% of GDP (1988)
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_@_Sweden
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 449,964 km2; land area: 410,928 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than California

_#_Land boundaries: 2,205 km total; Finland 586 km, Norway 1,619 km

_#_Coastline: 3,218 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: temperate in south with cold, cloudy winters and cool,
partly cloudy summers; subarctic in north

_#_Terrain: mostly flat or gently rolling lowlands; mountains in west

_#_Natural resources: zinc, iron ore, lead, copper, silver, timber,
uranium, hydropower potential

_#_Land use: arable land 7%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
2%; forest and woodland 64%; other 27%; includes irrigated NEGL%

_#_Environment: water pollution; acid rain

_#_Note: strategic location along Danish Straits linking
Baltic and North Seas

_*_People
_#_Population: 8,564,317 (July 1991), growth rate 0.4% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 13 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 11 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 3 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 6 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 75 years male, 81 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 1.9 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Swede(s); adjective--Swedish

_#_Ethnic divisions: homogeneous white population; small Lappish
minority; foreign born or first-generation immigrants (Finns, Yugoslavs,
Danes, Norwegians, Greeks, Turks) about 12%

_#_Religion: Evangelical Lutheran 94%, Roman Catholic 1.5%,
Pentecostal 1%, other 3.5% (1987)

_#_Language: Swedish, small Lapp- and Finnish-speaking minorities;
immigrants speak native languages

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