ransport aircraft

_#_Airports: 308 total, 255 usable; 24 with permanent-surface runways;
1 with runways over 3,659 m; 6 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
71 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: barely adequate wire and radio relay service;
31,200 telephones; stations--10 AM, 4 FM, 18 TV; satellite earth
stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, 14 domestic

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary National Gendarmerie,
paramilitary Civil Guard

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 8,240,412; 4,192,991 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $49 million, 0.8% of GDP (1988)
_%_
_@_Zambia
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 752,610 km2; land area: 740,720 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Texas

_#_Land boundaries: 5,664 km total; Angola 1,110 km, Malawi 837 km,
Mozambique 419 km, Namibia 233 km, Tanzania 338 km, Zaire 1,930 km,
Zimbabwe 797 km

_#_Coastline: none--landlocked

_#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked

_#_Disputes: quadripoint with Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe is in
disagreement; Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake Tanganyika may no
longer be indefinite since it is reported that the indefinite section of
the Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled

_#_Climate: tropical; modified by altitude; rainy season (October to
April)

_#_Terrain: mostly high plateau with some hills and mountains

_#_Natural resources: copper, cobalt, zinc, lead, coal, emeralds,
gold, silver, uranium, hydropower potential

_#_Land use: arable land 7%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 47%; forest and woodland 27%; other 19%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: deforestation; soil erosion; desertification

_#_Note: landlocked

_*_People
_#_Population: 8,445,724 (July 1991), growth rate 3.5% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 49 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 12 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: - 2 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 79 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 55 years male, 58 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 6.9 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Zambian(s); adjective--Zambian

_#_Ethnic divisions: African 98.7%, European 1.1%, other 0.2%

_#_Religion: Christian 50-75%, Muslim and Hindu, remainder indigenous
beliefs 1%

_#_Language: English (official); about 70 indig