Waterways: 980 km (navigable rivers, canals, and numerous coastal
lagoons)

Ports and harbors: Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro

Airports: 36 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 7 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m:
2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2001)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 29 1,524 to 2,437 m: 7 914 to
1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 9 (2001)

Military Cote d'Ivoire

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary Gendarmerie,
Republican Guard (includes Presidential Guard)

Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 3,963,166 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,071,011
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 188,411
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $127.7 million (FY01)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.3% (FY01)

Transnational Issues Cote d'Ivoire

Disputes - international: none

Illicit drugs: illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for local
consumption; transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian
heroin to Europe and occasionally to the US, and for Latin American
cocaine destined for Europe and South Africa

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Iraq

Introduction

Iraq

Background: Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq became an
independent kingdom in 1932. A "republic" was proclaimed in 1958, but
in actuality a series of military strongmen have ruled the country since
then, the latest being SADDAM Husayn. Territorial disputes with Iran led
to an inconclusive and costly eight-year war (1980-88). In August 1990
Iraq seized Kuwait, but was expelled by US-led, UN coalition forces during
January-February 1991. The victors did not occupy Iraq, however, thus
allowing the regime to stay in control. Following Kuwait's liberation,
the UN Security Council (UNSC) required Iraq to scrap all weapons of
mass destruction and long-range missiles and to allow UN verification
inspections. UN trade sanctions remain in effect due to incomplete Iraqi
compliance with relevant UNSC resolutions.

Geography Iraq

Location: Middle East, bordering the Persian Gulf, between Iran and
Kuwait

Geographic coordinates: 33 00 N, 44 00 E

Map references: Middle East

Area: total: 437,072 sq km water: 4,