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Exchange rates: manats per US$1 - 4,375 (April 1996), 4,500 (April
1995), 4,168 (end of December 1994)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Transportation
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Railways:
total: 2,125 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines
broad gauge: 2,125 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (1993)

Highways:
total: 36,700 km
paved: 31,800 km (includes graveled)
unpaved: 4,900 km (1990 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 1,130 km; petroleum products 630 km; natural
gas 1,240 km

Ports: Baku (Baki)

Airports:
total: 69
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 2
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 6
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 17
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 3
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 7
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 33 (1994 est.)

Communications
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Telephones: 710,000 (1991 est.)

Telephone system: 202,000 persons waiting for telephone
installations (January 1991 est.)
domestic: telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate; a
joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system in the Baku
area was supposed to become operational in 1994
international: cable and microwave radio relay connections to former
Soviet republics; connection through Moscow international gateway
switch to other countries; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat and
1 Intersputnik (Intelsat provides service to Turkey and through
Turkey to 200 more countries; Intersputnik provides direct service
to New York)

Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA (1
state-owned radio broadcast station)

Radios: NA

Television broadcast stations: 2
note: domestic and Russian TV programs are received locally and
Turkish and Iranian TV is received from an Intelsat satellite
through a receive-only earth station

Televisions: NA

Defense
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Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Maritime Border Guard

Manpower availability:
males age 15-49: 1,952,390
males fit for military service: 1,574,813
males reach military age (18) annually: 68,006 (1996 est.)

Defense expenditures: 33.5 billion manats, NA% of GDP (1994); note
- conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the
current exchange rate could produce misleading results

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