Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2007)

Roadways:

total: 8,050 km
paved: 4,991 km
unpaved: 3,059 km (2003)

Military
Bhutan

Military branches:

Royal Bhutan Army (includes Royal Bodyguard and Royal Bhutan Police)
(2008)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription
(2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 190,104
females age 16-49: 167,289 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 146,063
females age 16-49: 131,193 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 7,847
female: 7,530 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

1% of GDP (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues
Bhutan

Disputes - international:

Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists;
lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China
continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to
resolve territorial disputes arising from substantial cartographic
discrepancies, the largest of which lie in Bhutan's northwest and
along the Chumbi salient

This page was last updated on 18 December, 2008

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@Bolivia

Introduction
Bolivia

Background:

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away
from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has
consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and countercoups.
Democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have
faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, and
illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians elected
Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the
widest margin of any leader since the restoration of civilian rule
in 1982 - after he ran on a promise to change the country's
traditional political class and empower the nation's poor majority.
However, since taking office, his controversial strategies have
exacerbated racial and economic tensions between the Amerindian
populations of the Andean west and the non-indigenous communities of
the eastern lowlands.

Geography
Bolivia

Location:

Central South America, southwest of Brazil

Geographic coordinates:

17 00 S, 65 00 W

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