lways:
total: 2,957 km
broad gauge: 2,957 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (2003)

Highways:
total: 24,981 km
paved: 23,057 km
unpaved: 1,924 km (2000)

Pipelines:
gas 4,451 km; oil 1,518 km (2004)

Ports and harbors:
Baku (Baki)

Merchant marine:
total: 56 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 253,004 GRT/318,922 DWT
by type: cargo 14, petroleum tanker 40, roll on/roll off 2
foreign-owned: Russia 1 (2004 est.)

Airports:
67 (2003 est.)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 27
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 1 (2003 est.)
1,524 to 2,437 m: 15

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 40
2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
under 914 m: 32 (2003 est.)
914 to 1,523 m: 6

Heliports:
2 (2003 est.)

Military Azerbaijan

Military branches:
Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; law
passed December 2001 raises maximum conscription age from 28 to 35
(December 2001)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 15-49: 2,187,847 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 1,748,567 (2004 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 83,131 (2004 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$121 million (FY99)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.6% (FY99)

Transnational Issues Azerbaijan

Disputes - international:
Armenia supports ethnic Armenian secessionists in Nagorno-Karabakh
and militarily occupies about one-sixth of Azerbaijan - Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) continues to mediate
dispute; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia ratify Caspian seabed
delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to
insist on an even one-fifth allocation and challenges Azerbaijan's
hydrocarbon exploration in disputed waters; talks resume with
Turkmenistan on dividing the seabed in 2004 as both sides await an
ICJ decision on contested oilfields in the middle of the Caspian;
Azerbaijan protests Georgian constructions at the Red Bridge
crossing and several other small segments of boundary, which remain
unresolved until delimitation

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 571,000 (conflict with Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
limi