(1,000 GRT or over) totaling 15,191
GRT/19,489 DWT ships by type: cargo 3 (2002 est.)

Airports: 34 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 17 over 3,047 m: 2 2,438 to 3,047
m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 7 (2001) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 17 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 914 to
1,523 m: 9 under 914 m: 7 (2001)

Heliports: 1 (2001)

Military Slovakia

Military branches: Army (Ground Forces), Air and Air Defense Forces,
Home Guards (Territorial Defense Forces), Civil Defense Force, Railway
Armed Forces (subordinate to the Ministry of Transportation, Post,
and Telecommunications)

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

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 1,486,728 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,136,775
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 45,502
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $406 million (2002)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.89% (2002)

Transnational Issues Slovakia

Disputes - international: Slovakia requested additional ICJ judgment in
1998, and talks continue to set modalities to assure Hungarian compliance
with 1997 ICJ decision to proceed with construction of Gabcikovo-Nagymaros
Dam, abandoned by Hungary in 1989

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin bound
for Western Europe; producer of synthetic drugs for regional market

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Palmyra Atoll

Introduction

Palmyra Atoll

Background: The Kingdom of Hawaii claimed the atoll in 1862, and the US
included it among the Hawaiian Islands when it annexed the archipelago
in 1898. The Hawaii Statehood Act of 1959 did not include Palmyra Atoll,
which is now privately owned by the Nature Conservancy. This organization
is managing the atoll as a nature preserve. The lagoons and surrounding
waters within the 12 nautical mile US territorial seas were transferred to
the US Fish and Wildlife Service and were designated a National Wildlife
Refuge in January 2001.

Geography Palmyra Atoll

Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about half way
between Hawaii and American Samoa

Geographic coordinates: 5 52 N, 162 06 W

Map references: Oceania

Area: total: 11.9 sq km water: 0 sq km land: 11