ion, there are 35
low-power stations and about 51 low-power repeaters) (1997)

Televisions: NA

Transportation

Railways:
total: 9,440 km
standard gauge: 9,344 km 1.435-m standard gauge (2,743 km
electrified at three voltages; 1,885 km double track)
narrow gauge: 96 km 0.760-m narrow gauge (1996)

Highways:
total: 55,489 km
paved: 55,489 km (including 423 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1996 est.)

Waterways: NA km; the Elbe (Labe) is the principal river

Pipelines: natural gas 5,400 km

Ports and harbors: Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem

Airports: 69 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 35
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 8
1,524 to 2,437 m: 11
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 13 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 34
914 to 1,523 m: 17
under 914 m: 17 (1998 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Air and Air Defense Forces, Civil
Defense, Railroad Units

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 2,684,817 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,046,079 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 73,072 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $1.1 billion (1998)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 1.8% (1998)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: Liechtenstein claims restitution for
1,600 sq km of property in the Czech Republic confiscated from its
royal family in 1918; the Czech Republic insists that restitution
does not go back before February 1948, when the communists seized
power; individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property
confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II;
unresolved property issues with Slovakia over redistribution of
former Czechoslovak federal property

Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin and
hashish and Latin American cocaine to Western Europe; domestic
consumption--especially of locally produced synthetic drugs--on the
rise

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@Denmark
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Introduction

Background: Once the seat of rapacious Viking raiders and later a
major power in northwestern Europe, Denmark has evolved into a
modern, prosperous natio