(1,000 GRT or over) totaling 28,394 GRT/41,429
DWT (1998 est.)

Airports: 9 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 3
2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 6
over 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 2 (1998 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces,
Interior Ministry Troops, Border Guards

Military manpower--military age: 19 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 763,949 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 622,013 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 32,954 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $60 million (1998)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 2% (1998)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: the Albanian Government supports
protection of the rights of ethnic Albanians outside of its borders
but has downplayed them to further its primary foreign policy goal
of regional cooperation; Albanian majority in Kosovo seeks
independence from Serbian Republic; Albanians in The Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia claim discrimination in education, access to
public-sector jobs, and representation in government

Illicit drugs: increasingly active transshipment point for
Southwest Asian opiates, hashish, and cannabis transiting the Balkan
route and--to a far lesser extent--cocaine from South America destined
for Western Europe; limited opium and cannabis production; ethnic
Albanian narcotrafficking organizations active and rapidly expanding
in Europe

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Geography

Location: Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea,
between Morocco and Tunisia

Geographic coordinates: 28 00 N, 3 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total: 2,381,740 sq km
land: 2,381,740 sq km
water: 0 sq km

Area--comparative: slightly less than 3.5 times the size of Texas

Land boundaries:
total: 6,343 km
border countries: Libya 982 km, Mali 1,376 km, Mauritania 463 km,
Morocco 1,559 km, Niger 956 km, Tunisia 965 km, Western Sahara 42 km

Coastline: 998 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive fishing zone: 32-52 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

Climate: arid to semiarid; mild, wet wint