Montenegro 2)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 (Serbia 2, Montenegro 0)
914 to 1,523 m: 13 (Serbia 12, Montenegro 1)
under 914 m: 14 (Serbia 13, Montenegro 1) (1999 est.)
Heliports: 2 (1999 est.)
@Serbia and Montenegro:Military
Military branches: Army (including ground forces with border troops,
naval forces, air and air defense forces)
Military manpower - military age: Serbia - 19 years of age; Montenegro
- 19 years of age
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 2,603,224 (Serbia - 2,424,990; Montenegro - 178,234)
(2000 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 2,089,191 (Serbia - 1,945,422; Montenegro - 143,769)
(2000 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 82,553 (Serbia - 76,856; Montenegro - 5,697) (2000 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $911 million (FY99)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 6.5% (FY99)
@Serbia and Montenegro: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 border has made no
progress so far
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest Asian heroin moving
to Western Europe on the Balkan route
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SEYCHELLES
@Seychelles:Introduction
Background: A lengthy struggle between France and Great Britain for
the islands ended in 1814, when they were ceded to the latter.
Independence came in 1976. Socialist rule was brought to a close with
a new constitution and free elections in 1993.
@Seychelles: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
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