_Airports: 8 total, 7 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; none
with runways 1,220 to 2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: sparse system of wire, radiocommunications, and
low-capacity radio relay links; 8,000 telephones; stations--2 AM, 2 FM, 1
TV; 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army (includes naval and air units); paramilitary
Gendarmerie

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,268,342; 661,888 fit for
military service; 64,538 reach military age (16) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $33 million, 3.1% of GDP (1988)
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_@_Cambodia
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 181,040 km2; land area: 176,520 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Oklahoma

_#_Land boundaries: 2,572 km total; Laos 541 km, Thailand 803 km,
Vietnam 1,228 km

_#_Coastline: 443 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;

Continental shelf: 200 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: offshore islands and three sections of the
boundary with Vietnam are in dispute; maritime boundary with Vietnam
not defined; occupied by Vietnam on 25 December 1978

_#_Climate: tropical; rainy, monsoon season (May to October); dry
season (December to March); little seasonal temperature variation

_#_Terrain: mostly low, flat plains; mountains in southwest and north

_#_Natural resources: timber, gemstones, some iron ore, manganese,
phosphates, hydropower potential

_#_Land use: arable land 16%; permanent crops 1%; meadows and pastures
3%; forest and woodland 76%; other 4%; includes irrigated 1%

_#_Environment: a land of paddies and forests dominated by Mekong
River and Tonle Sap

_#_Note: buffer between Thailand and Vietnam

_*_People
_#_Population: 7,146,386 (July 1991), growth rate 2.2% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 38 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 16 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: 0 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 125 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 48 years male, 51 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 4.5 children born/woman (1991)

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

_#_Ethnic divisions: Khmer 90%, Chinese 5%, other 5%

_#_Religion: Theravada Buddhism 95%, other 5%

_#_Language: Khmer (official), French