_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 1,300 km, 1.000-meter-gauge single track

_#_Highways: 26,200 km total; 1,970 km paved; 5,849 km crushed stone,
gravel, and laterite; remainder earth roads and tracks

_#_Inland waterways: Lake Victoria, Lake Albert, Lake Kyoga, Lake
George, Lake Edward; Victoria Nile, Albert Nile; principal inland water
ports are at Jinja and Port Bell, both on Lake Victoria

_#_Merchant marine: 1 roll-on/roll-off cargo (1,000 GRT or over)
totaling 1,697 GRT

_#_Civil air: 4 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 37 total, 28 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 10 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: fair system with radio relay and radio
communications stations; 61,600 telephones; stations--10 AM, no FM, 9 TV;
satellite communications ground stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1
Indian Ocean INTELSAT

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, about 3,980,637; about 2,162,241
fit for military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $68 million, 1.5% of GDP (1988)
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_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 83,600 km2; land area: 83,600 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Maine

_#_Land boundaries: 1,016 km total; Oman 410 km, Saudi Arabia 586 km,
Qatar 20 km

_#_Coastline: 1,448 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: defined by bilateral boundaries or equidistant
line

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 3 nm (assumed), 12 nm for Ash Shariqah
(Sharjah)

_#_Disputes: boundary with Qatar is in dispute; no defined boundary
with Saudi Arabia; no defined boundary with most of Oman, but
Administrative Line in far north; claims three islands in the Persian
Gulf occupied by Iran (Jazireh-ye Abu Musa or Abu
Musa, Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Bozorg or Greater Tunb, and Jazireh-ye
Tonb-e Kuchek or Lesser Tunb)

_#_Climate: desert; cooler in eastern mountains

_#_Terrain: flat, barren coastal plain merging into rolling sand
dunes of vast desert wasteland; mountains in east

_#_Natural resources: crude oil and natural gas

_#_Land use: arable land NEGL%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 2%; forest and woodland NEGL%; other 98%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: frequent dust and sand storms; lack of natural
freshwater resources being overcome by desalination pla