, 555.20 (1994)

Fiscal year: 1 July--30 June

Communications

Telephones: 36,737 (1991 est.)

Telephone system: available only to business and government
domestic: cable, microwave radio relay, and tropospheric scatter
international: satellite earth stations--2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 11, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)

Radios: 6 million (1998 est.)

Television broadcast stations: 1 (1998)

Televisions: 15,000 (1998)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 1,104 km
narrow gauge: 1,104 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

Highways:
total: 34,300 km
paved: 4,288 km
unpaved: 30,012 km (1995 est.)

Waterways: 2,090 km; of decreasing importance

Ports and harbors: Bonaberi, Douala, Garoua, Kribi, Tiko

Airports: 52 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 11
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 4
1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 1 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 41
1,524 to 2,437 m: 8
914 to 1,523 m: 21
under 914 m: 12 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry), Air
Force, National Gendarmerie, Presidential Guard

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 3,388,643 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,716,285 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 165,670 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $155 million (FY98/99)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 1.4% (FY98/99)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: delimitation of international boundaries
in the vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border
incidents in the past, is completed and awaits ratification by
Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria; dispute with Nigeria over land
and maritime boundaries around the Bakasi Peninsula and Lake Chad is
currently before the International Court of Justice

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Introduction

Background: A land of vast distances and rich natural resources,
from 1867 on Canada has enjoyed de facto independence while
retaining, even to the present day, certain formal ties to the
British crown. Economically and technologically the nation has
developed in para