plantations; main crops--rice, rubber, corn; food shortages--rice, meat,
vegetables, dairy products, sugar, flour
_#_Economic aid: US commitments, including Ex-Im (FY70-88), $719
million; Western (non-US) countries (1970-88), $285 million; Communist
countries (1970-89), $1,800 million
_#_Currency: riel (plural--riels); 1 riel (CR) = 100 sen
_#_Exchange rates: riels (CR) per US$1--560 (November 1990), 159.00
(1988), 100.00 (1987), 30.00 (1986), 7.00 (1985)
_#_Fiscal year: calendar year
_*_Communications
_#_Railroads: 612 km 1.000-meter gauge, government owned
_#_Highways: 13,351 km total; 2,622 km bituminous; 7,105 km crushed
stone, gravel, or improved earth; 3,624 km unimproved earth; some roads
in disrepair
_#_Inland waterways: 3,700 km navigable all year to craft drawing 0.6
meters; 282 km navigable to craft drawing 1.8 meters
_#_Ports: Kampong Saom, Phnom Penh
_#_Airports: 22 total, 9 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: service barely adequate for government
requirements and virtually nonexistent for general public; international
service limited to Vietnam and other adjacent countries; stations--1 AM,
no FM, 1 TV
_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: SOC--Cambodian People's Armed Forces (CPAF); Communist
resistance forces--National Army of Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge);
non-Communist resistance forces--Armee National Kampuchea Independent
(ANKI) which is sometimes anglicized as National Army of Independent
Cambodia (NAIC) and Khmer People's National Liberation Armed Forces
(KPNLAF)
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,869,880; 1,030,356 fit for
military service; 57,288 reach military age (18) annually
_#_Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP
_%_
_@_Cameroon
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 475,440 km2; land area: 469,440 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than California
_#_Land boundaries: 4,591 km total; Central African Republic 797 km,
Chad 1,094 km, Congo 523 km, Equatorial Guinea 189 km, Gabon 298 km,
Nigeria 1,690 km
_#_Coastline: 402 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Territorial sea: 50 nm
_#_Disputes: demarcation of international boundaries in Lake Chad,
the lack of which has led to border incidents in the past, is completed
and awaiting ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria;
Nigerian proposals to reo
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