roadcast stations:
AM 27, FM 25, shortwave 6 (1998)

Radios:
6.64 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations:
35 (plus 66 repeaters) (1995)

Televisions:
3.1 million (1997)

Internet country code:
.ma

Internet hosts:
3,218 (2006)

Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
8 (2000)

Internet users:
4.6 million (2005)

Transportation Morocco

Airports:
60 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 26
over 3,047 m: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 2 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 34
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 9
914 to 1,523 m: 12
under 914 m: 11 (2006)

Heliports:
1 (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 715 km; oil 285 km (2006)

Railways:
total: 1,907 km
standard gauge: 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km electrified) (2005)

Roadways:
total: 57,493 km
paved: 32,716 km (including 507 km of expressways)
unpaved: 24,777 km (2004)

Merchant marine:
total: 41 ships (1000 GRT or over) 382,781 GRT/285,435 DWT
by type: cargo 5, chemical tanker 6, container 9, passenger/cargo
13, petroleum tanker 1, refrigerated cargo 2, roll on/roll off 5
foreign-owned: 5 (France 1, Germany 2, Switzerland 1, UK 1)
registered in other countries: 1 (Panama 1) (2006)

Ports and terminals:
Agadir, Casablanca, Mohammedia, Nador, Safi, Tangier

Military Morocco

Military branches:
Royal Armed Forces (Forces Armees Royales, FAR): Royal Moroccan
Army (includes Air Defense), Navy (includes Marines), Royal Moroccan
Air Force (Force Aerienne Royale Marocaine) (2006)

Military service age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;
conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)

Manpower available for military service:
males age 18-49: 7,908,864
females age 18-49: 7,882,879 (2005 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 6,484,787
females age 18-49: 6,675,729 (2005 est.)

Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males age 18-49: 353,377
females age 18-49: 341,677 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$2.31 billion (2003 est.)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
5% (2003 est.)

Transnational Issues Morocco

Disputes - international:
claims and administers Western Sahara whose sovereignty remains
unresolved - UN-administered cease-fire has remained in effect since