ds are said to be hard-surfaced,
meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
unpaved: 2,370 km (1996 est.)

Pipelines: natural gas 400 km (1992)

Ports and harbors: none

Airports: 59 (1994 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 14
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 5
1,524 to 2,437 m: 7
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (1994 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 45
914 to 1,523 m: 9
under 914 m: 36 (1994 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Air Force, Air Defense Forces,
Presidential National Guard, Security Forces (internal and border
troops)

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 1,478,551 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,211,514 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 65,001 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $19.3 million (1997)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 1.8% (1997)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: most of the boundary with China in
dispute; territorial dispute with Kyrgyzstan on northern boundary in
Isfara Valley area

Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivation of cannabis, mostly
for domestic consumption; opium poppy cultivation negligible in 1998
because of government eradication program; increasingly used as
transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Russia
and Western Europe

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Geography

Location: Eastern Africa, bordering the Indian Ocean, between
Kenya and Mozambique

Geographic coordinates: 6 00 S, 35 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total: 945,090 sq km
land: 886,040 sq km
water: 59,050 sq km
note: includes the islands of Mafia, Pemba, and Zanzibar

Area--comparative: slightly larger than twice the size of
California

Land boundaries:
total: 3,402 km
border countries: Burundi 451 km, Kenya 769 km, Malawi 475 km,
Mozambique 756 km, Rwanda 217 km, Uganda 396 km, Zambia 338 km

Coastline: 1,424 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

Climate: varies from tropical along coast to temperate in
highlands

Terrain: plains along coast; central plateau; highlands in north,
south

Elevation extremes: