FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   498   499   500   501   502   503   504   505   506   507   508   509   510   511   512   513   514   515   516   517   518   519   520   521   522  
523   524   525   526   527   528   529   530   531   532   533   534   535   536   537   538   539   540   541   542   543   544   545   546   547   >>   >|  
8 billion; Communist countries (1970-89), $2.5 billion _#_Currency: Moroccan dirham (plural--dirhams); 1 Moroccan dirham (DH) = 100 centimes _#_Exchange rates: Moroccan dirhams (DH) per US$1--8.071 (January 1991), 8.242 (1990), 8.488 (1989), 8.209 (1988), 8.359 (1987), 9.104 (1986), 10.062 (1985) _#_Fiscal year: calendar year _*_Communications _#_Railroads: 1,893 km 1.435-meter standard gauge (246 km double track, 974 km electrified) _#_Highways: 59,198 km total; 27,740 km bituminous treated, 31,458 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth, and unimproved earth _#_Pipelines: 362 km crude oil; 491 km (abandoned) refined products; 241 km natural gas _#_Ports: Agadir, Casablanca, El Jorf Lasfar, Kenitra, Mohammedia, Nador, Safi, Tangier; also Spanish-controlled Ceuta and Melilla _#_Merchant marine: 51 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 315,169 GRT/487,490 DWT; includes 10 cargo, 2 container, 12 refrigerated cargo, 6 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 3 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 11 chemical tanker, 4 bulk, 3 short-sea passenger _#_Civil air: 23 major transport aircraft _#_Airports: 75 total, 67 usable; 26 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 13 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 27 with runways 1,220-2,439 m _#_Telecommunications: good system composed of wire lines, cables, and radio relay links; principal centers are Casablanca and Rabat, secondary centers are Fes, Marrakech, Oujda, Tangier, and Tetouan; 280,000 telephones; stations--14 AM, 6 FM, 47 TV; 5 submarine cables; satellite earth stations--2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1 ARABSAT; radio relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara; coaxial cable to Algeria; microwave network linking Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco _*_Defense Forces _#_Branches: Royal Moroccan Army, Royal Moroccan Navy, Royal Moroccan Air Force, Royal Gendarmerie, Auxiliary Forces _#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 6,437,152; 4,092,027 fit for military service; 299,535 reach military age (18) annually; limited conscription _#_Defense expenditures: $1.4 billion, 5.2% of GDP _%_ _@_Mozambique _*_Geography _#_Total area: 801,590 km2; land area: 784,090 km2 _#_Comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of California _#_Land boundaries: 4,571 km total; Malawi 1,569 km, South Africa 491 km, Swaziland 105 km, Tanzania 756 km, Zambia 419 km, Zimbabwe 1,231 km _#_Coa
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   498   499   500   501   502   503   504   505   506   507   508   509   510   511   512   513   514   515   516   517   518   519   520   521   522  
523   524   525   526   527   528   529   530   531   532   533   534   535   536   537   538   539   540   541   542   543   544   545   546   547   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Moroccan

 

runways

 
billion
 

tanker

 

military

 

stations

 

Defense

 

Forces

 

Tangier

 
dirhams

dirham
 

Casablanca

 

cables

 
Algeria
 
centers
 

ARABSAT

 

INTELSAT

 
Jordan
 

coaxial

 
Sahara

microwave

 
linking
 
Western
 

Gibraltar

 

network

 

telephones

 
principal
 

secondary

 

composed

 
Telecommunications

system
 

Marrakech

 

submarine

 

satellite

 

Tetouan

 

Atlantic

 

Gendarmerie

 

slightly

 

California

 
Comparative

Geography
 
boundaries
 

Zambia

 

Zimbabwe

 

Tanzania

 
Malawi
 

Swaziland

 

Africa

 

Mozambique

 

Manpower