535 km hard surface (including 242 km
superhighways); 3,373 km earth roads (1987)

_#_Inland waterways: 470 km (1987)

_#_Pipelines: crude, 193 km; refined product, 418 km; natural gas,
1,400 km (1986)

_#_Ports: Burgas, Varna, Varna West; river ports are Ruse, Vidin, and
Lom on the Danube

_#_Merchant marine: 112 ships (1,000 GRT and over) totaling 1,227,817
GRT/1,860,294 DWT; includes 2 short-sea passenger, 33 cargo, 2 container,
1 passenger-cargo training, 6 roll-on/roll-off, 18 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 chemical carrier, 2 railcar carrier, 47 bulk;
Bulgaria owns 3 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 51,035 DWT operating
under Liberian registry

_#_Civil air: 86 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 380 total, 380 usable; about 120 with permanent-surface
runways; 20 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 20 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: 2.5 million telephones; direct dialing to 36
countries; phone density is 25 phones per 100 persons; 67% of Sofia
households now have a phone (November 1988); stations--21 AM, 16 FM,
and 19 TV, with 1 Soviet TV relay in Sofia; 2.1 million TV sets (1990);
92% of country receives No. 1 television program (May 1990)

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Bulgarian People's Army, Bulgarian Navy, Air and Air
Defense Forces, Frontier Troops, Civil Defense

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 2,183,539; 1,826,992 fit for
military service; 67,836 reach military age (19) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: 1.615 billion leva, NA% of GDP (1990);
note--conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the
current exchange rate would produce misleading results
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_@_Burkina
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 274,200 km2; land area: 273,800 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Colorado

_#_Land boundaries: 3,192 km total; Benin 306 km, Ghana 548 km,
Ivory Coast 584 km, Mali 1,000 km, Niger 628 km, Togo 126 km

_#_Coastline: none--landlocked

_#_Maritime claims: none--landlocked

_#_Disputes: the disputed international boundary between Burkina and
Mali was submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in October
1983 and the ICJ issued its final ruling in December 1986, which both
sides agreed to accept; Burkina and Mali are proceeding with boundary
demarcation, including the tripoint with Niger

_#_Climate: tropical; warm, dry winters; hot, wet summers

_#_Terrain: mostly flat to dissected, undul