n between the Baltic Sea
and North Sea

Pipelines: crude oil 2,460 km (1997)

Ports and harbors: Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven,
Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Lubeck,
Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart

Merchant marine:
total: 594 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 7,699,596
GRT/9,629,163 DWT
ships by type: cargo 227, chemical tanker 15, combination bulk 1,
container 306, liquefied gas tanker 5, multifunction large-load
carrier 5, oil tanker 7, passenger 3, railcar carrier 2,
refrigerated cargo 2, roll-on/roll-off cargo 14, short-sea passenger
7 (1998 est.)

Airports: 618 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 319
over 3,047 m: 14
2,438 to 3,047 m: 62
1,524 to 2,437 m: 68
914 to 1,523 m: 54
under 914 m: 121 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 299
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 58
under 914 m: 227 (1998 est.)

Heliports: 61 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Air Arm), Air
Force, Medical Corps, Border Police, Coast Guard

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 20,860,710 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 17,799,070 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 472,708 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $32.8 billion (1998)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 1.5% (1998)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: individual Sudeten German claims for
restitution of property confiscated in connection with their
expulsion after World War II

Illicit drugs: source of precursor chemicals for South American
cocaine processors; transshipment point for and consumer of
Southwest Asian heroin and hashish, Latin American cocaine, and
European-produced synthetic drugs

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Geography

Location: Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between
Cote d'Ivoire and Togo

Geographic coordinates: 8 00 N, 2 00 W

Map references: Africa

Area:
total: 238,540 sq km
land: 230,020 sq km
water: 8,520 sq km

Area--comparative: slightly smaller than Oregon

Land boundaries:
total: 2,093 km
border countries: