efficient system, mainly buried cables
domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; buried cable
international: country code - 352; 3 channels leased on TAT-6
coaxial submarine cable (Europe to North America)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999)

Radios:
285,000 (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
5 (1999)

Televisions:
285,000 (1998 est.)

Internet country code:
.lu

Internet hosts:
88,661 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
8 (2000)

Internet users:
315,000 (2005)

Transportation Luxembourg

Airports:
2 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 1
over 3,047 m: 1 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 1
under 914 m: 1 (2006)

Heliports:
1 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 155 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 274 km
standard gauge: 274 km 1.435-m gauge (262 km electrified) (2005)

Roadways:
total: 5,227 km
paved: 5,227 km (including 147 km of expressways) (2004)

Waterways:
37 km (on Moselle River) (2003)

Merchant marine:
total: 42 ships (1000 GRT or over) 557,636 GRT/792,069 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 6, chemical tanker 16, container 7, liquefied
gas 2, passenger 3, petroleum tanker 3, roll on/roll off 5
foreign-owned: 42 (Belgium 9, Finland 4, France 14, Germany 10,
Netherlands 2, US 3) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Mertert

Military Luxembourg

Military branches:
Army

Military service age and obligation:
a 1967 law made the Army an all-volunteer force; 17 years of age
for voluntary military service; soldiers under 18 are not deployed
into combat or with peacekeeping missions (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 17-49: 110,867
females age 17-49: 108,758 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 17-49: 90,279
females age 17-49: 88,638 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 2,775
females age 17-49: 2,703 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$231.6 million (2003)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
0.9% (2003)

Transnational Issues Luxembourg

Disputes - international:
none

This page was last updated on 8 February, 2007

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@Macau

Introduction Macau

Background:
Colonized by the Portuguese in the 16th century, Macau was the
first European