t-sea
passenger 5
note: Croatia owns an additional 80 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
2,057,523 DWT operating under the registries of Malta, Liberia,
Cyprus, Panama, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1997 est.)

Airports: 71 (1997 est.)

Airports-with paved runways:
total: 20
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 7 (1997 est.)

Airports-with unpaved runways:
total: 51
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 8
under 914 m: 42 (1997 est.)

Heliports: 2 (1997 est.)

@Croatia:Military

Military branches: Ground Forces, Naval Forces, Air and Air Defense
Forces, Frontier Guard, Home Guard

Military manpower-military age: 19 years of age

Military manpower-availability:
males age 15-49: 1,191,191 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-fit for military service:
males: 945,746 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-reaching military age annually:
males: 33,736 (1998 est.)

Military expenditures-dollar figure: $1.5 billion (1997)

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 8.2% (1997)

@Croatia:Transnational Issues

Disputes-international: Eastern Slavonia, which was held by ethnic
Serbs during the ethnic conflict, was returned to Croatian control by
the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia on 15 January
1998; Croatia and Italy made progress toward resolving a bilateral
issue dating from WWII over property and ethnic minority rights;
significant progress has been made with Slovenia toward resolving a
maritime border dispute over direct access to the sea in the Adriatic;
Serbia and Montenegro is disputing Croatia's claim to the Prevlaka
Peninsula in southern Croatia because it controls the entrance to Boka
Kotorska in Montenegro; Prevlaka is currently under observation by the
UN military observer mission in Prevlaka (UNMOP)

Illicit drugs: transit point along the Balkan route for Southwest
Asian heroin to Western Europe; a minor transit point for maritime
shipments of South American cocaine bound for Western Europe

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CUBA

@Cuba:Geography

Location: Caribbean, island between the Caribbean Sea and the North
Atlantic Ocean, south of Florida

Geographic coordinates: 21 30 N, 80 00 W

Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

Area:
total: 110,860 sq km
land: 110,860 sq km
water: 0 sq km

Area-comparative: slightly smaller than Pennsylvania

Land boundaries:
total: 2