r: 14 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 6 total, 5 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: excellent international service via
tropospheric scatter links to Barbados and Guyana; good local service;
109,000 telephones; stations--2 AM, 4 FM, 5 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Trinidad and Tobago Defense Force (Army), Coast Guard,
Air Wing, Trinidad and Tobago Police Service

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 339,260; 245,086 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $59 million, 1.6% of GDP (1989 est.)
_%_
_@_Tromelin Island
(French possession)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 1 km2; land area: 1 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 1.7 times the size of The Mall in
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 3.7 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

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

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: claimed by Madagascar, Mauritius, and Seychelles

_#_Climate: tropical

_#_Terrain: sandy

_#_Natural resources: fish

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

_#_Environment: wildlife sanctuary

_#_Note: located 350 km east of Madagascar and 600 km north of Reunion
in the Indian Ocean; climatologically important location for forecasting
cyclones

_*_People
_#_Population: uninhabited

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none

_#_Type: French possession administered by Commissioner of the
Republic Daniel CONSTANTIN, resident in Reunion

_*_Economy
_#_Overview: no economic activity

_*_Communications
_#_Airports: 1 with runway less than 1,220 m

_#_Ports: none; offshore anchorage only

_#_Telecommunications: important meteorological station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: defense is the responsibility of France
_%_
_@_Tunisia
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 163,610 km2; land area: 155,360 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Georgia

_#_Land boundaries: 1,424 km total; Algeria 965 km, Libya 459 km

_#_Coastline: 1,148 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Libya

_#_Climate: temperate in north with mil