Internet country code: .pt

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 16 (2000)

Internet users: 2 million (2001)

Transportation Portugal

Railways: total: 2,850 km broad gauge: 2,576 km 1.668-m gauge (623 km
electrified; 426 km double-tracked) narrow gauge: 274 km 1.000-m gauge
(2001)

Highways: total: 68,732 km paved: 59,110 km (including 797 km of
expressways) unpaved: 9,622 km (1999)

Waterways: 820 km note: relatively unimportant to national economy, used
by shallow-draft craft limited to 300 metric-ton or less cargo capacity

Pipelines: crude oil 22 km; petroleum products 58 km; natural gas 700
km note: long have not yet been built

Ports and harbors: Aveiro, Funchal (Madeira Islands), Horta (Azores),
Leixoes, Lisbon, Porto, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Praia da Vitoria (Azores),
Setubal, Viana do Castelo

Merchant marine: total: 140 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,001,440
GRT/1,519,701 DWT ships by type: bulk 10, cargo 71, chemical tanker 17,
container 10, liquefied gas 8, multi-functional large-load carrier 1,
petroleum tanker 10, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/roll off 6, short-sea
passenger 4, vehicle carrier 2 note: includes some foreign-owned
ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Belgium 1, British
Virgin Islands 1, Cyprus 1, Denmark 6, Germany 20, Greece 1, Iceland 1,
Italy 16, Lebanon 1, Liberia 1, Monaco 2, Norway 5, Panama 5, Spain 22,
Switzerland 8, United Kingdom 1, Virgin Islands (UK) 1 (2002 est.)

Airports: 67 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 40 over 3,047 m: 5 2,438 to 3,047
m: 9 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 14 under 914 m: 7 (2001)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 27 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m:
26 (2001)

Military Portugal

Military branches: Army, Navy (PON) (includes Marines), Air Force,
Republican Guard (includes Fiscal Guard)

Military manpower - military age: 20 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,525,848 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,024,526
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 71,404
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $1.286 billion (FY99/00)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 2.2% (FY99/00)

Transnational Issues Portugal

Disputes - international: none

Illicit drugs: gateway country for Latin American cocaine and Southwest
Asian heroin entering the European