paved, 4,100 km gravel,
4,400 km improved and unimproved earth

_#_Inland waterways: Rio Lempa partially navigable

_#_Ports: Acajutla, Cutuco

_#_Civil air: 7 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 116 total, 82 usable; 6 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
5 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: nationwide trunk radio relay system; connection
into Central American Microwave System; 116,000 telephones; stations--77
AM, no FM, 5 TV, 2 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, National Police,
Treasury Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,220,088; 780,108 fit for
military service; 71,709 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $220 million, 3.6% of GDP (1990)
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_@_Equatorial Guinea
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 28,050 km2; land area: 28,050 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland

_#_Land boundaries: 539 km total; Cameroon 189 km, Gabon 350 km

_#_Coastline: 296 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: maritime boundary dispute with Gabon because of
disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay

_#_Climate: tropical; always hot, humid

_#_Terrain: coastal plains rise to interior hills; islands are
volcanic

_#_Natural resources: timber, crude oil, small unexploited deposits
of gold, manganese, uranium

_#_Land use: arable land 8%; permanent crops 4%; meadows and pastures
4%; forest and woodland 51%; other 33%

_#_Environment: subject to violent windstorms

_#_Note: insular and continental regions rather widely separated

_*_People
_#_Population: 378,729 (July 1991), growth rate 2.6% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 42 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: 116 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 49 years male, 53 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 5.4 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Equatorial Guinean(s) or Equatoguinean(s);
adjective--Equatorial Guinean or Equatoguinean

_#_Ethnic divisions: indigenous population of Bioko, primarily Bubi,
some Fernandinos; Rio Muni, primarily Fang; less than 1,000 Europ