elecommunications:
highly developed system with extensive microwave radio relay links;
privatized in December 1990; connected into Central America Microwave
System; 6,410,000 telephones; broadcast stations - 679 AM, no FM, 238
TV, 22 shortwave; 120 domestic satellite terminals; earth stations - 4
Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT; launched
Solidarity I satellite in November 1993

@Mexico, Defense Forces

Branches:
National Defense (including Army and Air Force), Navy (including
Marines)
Manpower availability:
males age 15-49 22,779,635; fit for military service 16,619,809; reach
military age (18) annually 1,053,025 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
$NA, NA% of GDP

@Micronesia, Federated States of, Geography

Location:
Oceania, Micronesia, in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters
of the way between Hawaii and Indonesia
Map references:
Oceania, Southeast Asia, Standard Time Zones of the World
Area:
total area:
702 sq km
land area:
702 sq km
comparative area:
slightly less than four times the size of Washington, DC
note:
includes Pohnpei (Ponape), Truk (Chuuk), Yap, and Kosrae
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
6,112 km
Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone:
200 nm
territorial sea:
12 nm
International disputes:
none
Climate:
tropical; heavy year-round rainfall, especially in the eastern
islands; located on southern edge of the typhoon belt with occasional
severe damage
Terrain:
islands vary geologically from high mountainous islands to low, coral
atolls; volcanic outcroppings on Pohnpei, Kosrae, and Truk
Natural resources:
forests, marine products, deep-seabed minerals
Land use:
arable land:
NA%
permanent crops:
NA%
meadows and pastures:
NA%
forest and woodland:
NA%
other:
NA%
Irrigated land:
NA sq km
Environment:
current issues:
NA
natural hazards:
subject to typhoons (June to December)
international agreements:
party to - Climate Change, Law of the Sea; signed, but not ratified -
Biodiversity
Note:
four major island groups totaling 607 islands

@Micronesia, Federated States of, People

Population:
120,347 (July 1994 est.)
Population growth rate:
3.36% (1994 est.)
Birth rate:
28.3 births/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Death rate:
6.38 deaths/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Net migration rate:
11.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1994 est.)
Infant mortality