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short-sea passenger 76, specialized tanker 3 (1998 est.) Airports: 78 (1998 est.) Airports--with paved runways: total: 63 over 3,047 m: 5 2,438 to 3,047 m: 15 1,524 to 2,437 m: 18 914 to 1,523 m: 16 under 914 m: 9 (1998 est.) Airports--with unpaved runways: total: 15 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 11 (1998 est.) Heliports: 2 (1998 est.) Military Military branches: Hellenic Army, Hellenic Navy, Hellenic Air Force, National Guard, Police Military manpower--military age: 21 years of age Military manpower--availability: males age 15-49: 2,707,628 (1999 est.) Military manpower--fit for military service: males age 15-49: 2,071,670 (1999 est.) Military manpower--reaching military age annually: males: 79,376 (1999 est.) Military expenditures--dollar figure: $4.04 billion (1998 est.) Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA% Transnational Issues Disputes--international: complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Turkey in Aegean Sea; Cyprus question with Turkey; dispute with The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over name; in September 1995, Skopje and Athens signed an interim accord resolving their dispute over symbols and certain constitutional provisions; Athens also lifted its economic embargo on The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Illicit drugs: a gateway to Europe for traffickers smuggling cannabis and heroin from the Middle East and Southwest Asia to the West and precursor chemicals to the East; some South American cocaine transits or is consumed in Greece ====================================================================== @Greenland --------- Geography Location: Northern North America, island between the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Canada Geographic coordinates: 72 00 N, 40 00 W Map references: Arctic Region Area: total: 2,175,600 sq km land: 2,175,600 sq km (341,600 sq km ice-free, 1,834,000 sq km ice-covered) (est.) Area--comparative: slightly more than three times the size of Texas Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 44,087 km Maritime claims: exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 3 nm Climate: arctic to subarctic; cool summers, cold winters Terrain: flat to gradually sloping icecap covers all but a narrow, mountainous, barren, rocky coast Elevation extremes:
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