5)
Televisions:
1.18 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.lb
Internet hosts:
3,307 (2006)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
22 (2000)
Internet users:
700,000 (2005)
Transportation Lebanon
Airports:
7 (2006)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 5
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2006)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2006)
Pipelines:
gas 43 km (2006)
Railways:
total: 401 km
standard gauge: 319 km 1.435 m
narrow gauge: 82 km 1.050 m
note: rail system became unusable because of damage done during
fighting in the 1980s and in 2006 (2006)
Roadways:
total: 7,300 km
paved: 6,198 km
unpaved: 1,102 km (1999)
Merchant marine:
total: 39 ships (1000 GRT or over) 150,598 GRT/178,295 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 4, cargo 18, livestock carrier 10,
refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 3, vehicle carrier 3
foreign-owned: 4 (Greece 3, Syria 1)
registered in other countries: 59 (Antigua and Barbuda 1, Barbados
1, Cambodia 6, Comoros 6, Egypt 2, Georgia 7, Honduras 1, North
Korea 6, Liberia 2, Malta 10, Mongolia 1, Panama 2, Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines 4, Sao Tome and Principe 1, Syria 7, unknown 2)
(2006)
Ports and terminals:
Beirut, Chekka, Jounie, Tripoli
Military Lebanon
Military branches:
Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF): Army, Navy, and Air Force
Military service age and obligation:
18-30 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 12 months (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 974,363
females age 18-49: 1,024,273 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 821,762
females age 18-49: 865,770 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$540.6 million (2004)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
3.1% (2004)
Transnational Issues Lebanon
Disputes - international:
Lacking a treaty or other documentation describing the boundary,
portions of the Lebanon-Syria boundary are unclear with several
sections in dispute; since 2000, Lebanon has claimed Shab'a Farms
area in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights ; the roughly
2,000-strong UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has been in place
since 1978
Refugees and internally displaced persons:
refugees (country of origin): 405,425 (Palestinian Refugee
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