, almost all insignificant; 2,993 km
refined products; 12,800 km natural gas

_#_Ports: London, Liverpool, Felixstowe, Tees and Hartlepool,
Dover, Sullom Voe, Southampton

_#_Merchant marine: 251 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
4,643,056 GRT/6,214,450 DWT; includes 7 passenger, 21 short-sea
passenger, 39 cargo, 34 container, 22 roll-on/roll-off cargo,
10 refrigerated cargo, 1 vehicle carrier, 1 railcar carrier,
74 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 4 chemical tanker,
9 liquefied gas, 1 combination ore/oil, 1 specialized tanker, 25 bulk,
2 combination bulk

_#_Civil air: 618 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 520 total, 388 usable; 252 with permanent-surface
runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 37 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
133 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: modern, efficient domestic and international
system; 30,200,000 telephones; excellent countrywide broadcast systems;
stations--223 AM, 165 (401 relays) FM, 207 (3,210 relays) TV; 40 coaxial
submarine cables; satellite communication ground stations operating in
INTELSAT (7 Atlantic Ocean and 3 Indian Ocean), MARISAT, and EUTELSAT
systems

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Royal Navy (including Royal Marines), Royal Air
Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 14,475,433; 12,167,324 fit for
military service; no conscription

_#_Defense expenditures: $41 billion, 4.8% of GDP (FY90)
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_@_United States
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 9,372,610 km2; land area: 9,166,600 km2; includes only
the 50 states and District of Colombia

_#_Comparative area: about four-tenths the size of USSR; about
one-third the size of Africa; about one-half the size of South America
(or slightly larger than Brazil); slightly smaller than China; about
two and one-half times the size of Western Europe

_#_Land boundaries: 12,248 km total; Canada 8,893 km (including
2,477 km with Alaska), Mexico 3,326 km, Cuba (US naval base at
Guantanamo) 29 km

_#_Coastline: 19,924 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 12 nm;

Continental shelf: not specified;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: maritime boundary disputes with Canada; US Naval Base at
Guantanamo is leased from Cuba and only mutual agreement or US
abandonment of the area can terminate the lease; Haiti claims Navassa
Island; US has made no territorial claim in Antarctica (but has reserved
the right to do so) an