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_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Civil Guard

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 10,134,256; 8,222,987 fit for
military service; 339,749 reach military age (20) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $8.6 billion, 2% of GDP (1990)
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_@_Spratly Islands
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: less than 5 km2; land area: less than 5 km2; includes
100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over the
South China Sea

_#_Comparative area: undetermined

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 926 km

_#_Maritime claims: undetermined

_#_Disputes: China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam
claim all or part of the Spratly Islands

_#_Climate: tropical

_#_Terrain: flat

_#_Natural resources: fish, guano; oil and natural gas potential

_#_Land use: arable land 0%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures
0%; forest and woodland 0%; other 100%

_#_Environment: subject to typhoons; includes numerous small islands,
atolls, shoals, and coral reefs

_#_Note: strategically located near several primary shipping
lanes in the central South China Sea; serious navigational hazard

_*_People
_#_Population: no permanent inhabitants; garrisons

_*_Government
_#_Long-form name: none

_*_Economy
_#_Overview: Economic activity is limited to commercial fishing and
phosphate mining. Geological surveys carried out several years ago
suggest that substantial reserves of oil and natural gas may lie beneath
the islands; commercial exploitation has yet to be developed.

_#_Industries: some guano mining

_*_Communications
_#_Airports: 3 total, 2 usable; none with runways over 2,439 m;
1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Ports: no natural harbors

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Note: approximately 50 small islands or reefs are occupied
by China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Vietnam
_%_
_@_Sri Lanka
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 65,610 km2; land area: 64,740 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than West Virginia

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 1,340 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;

Continental shelf: edge of continental margin or 200 nm;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; monsoonal; northeast monsoon (December to
March); southwest monsoon (June to October)

_#_Terrain: mostly low, flat to rolling plain; mountains in
south-central interior

_#_Natural