o 2,437 m: 2 (Serbia 2, Montenegro 0)
914 to 1,523 m: 14 (Serbia 13, Montenegro 1)
under 914 m: 14 (Serbia 13, Montenegro 1) (1998 est.)
Military
Military branches: Army (including ground forces with border
troops, naval forces, air and air defense forces)
Military manpower--military age: Serbia?NA years of age;
Montenegro--19 years of age
Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: Serbia--2,727,292; Montenegro--187,198 (1999 est.)
Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: Serbia--2,183,534; Montenegro--150,415 (1999 est.)
Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: Serbia--NA; Montenegro--5,671 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures--dollar figure: $911 million (1999)
Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 6.5% (1999)
Transnational Issues
Disputes--international: disputes with Bosnia and Herzegovina over
Serbian populated areas; Albanian majority in Kosovo seeks
independence from Serbian republic; Serbia and Montenegro is
disputing Croatia's claim to the Prevlaka Peninsula in southern
Croatia because it controls the entrance to Boka Kotorska in
Montenegro; Prevlaka is currently under observation by the UN
military observer mission in Prevlaka (UNMOP); the border commission
formed by The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and
Montenegro in April 1996 to resolve differences in delineation of
their mutual border has made no progress so far
Illicit drugs: major transshipment point for Southwest Asian
heroin moving to Western Europe on the Balkan route
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@Seychelles
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Geography
Location: Eastern Africa, group of islands in the Indian Ocean,
northeast of Madagascar
Geographic coordinates: 4 35 S, 55 40 E
Map references: Africa
Area:
total: 455 sq km
land: 455 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Area--comparative: 2.5 times the size of Washington, DC
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 491 km
Maritime claims:
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm
Climate: tropical marine; humid; cooler season during southeast
monsoon (late May to September); warmer season during northwest
monsoon (March to May)
Terrain: Mahe Group is granitic, narrow coastal strip, rocky,
hilly; others are coral, fla
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