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_#_Inland waterways: 5,150-8,046 km navigable waterways (includes
2,575-3,058 km main cargo routes)

_#_Ports: Chittagong, Chalna

_#_Merchant marine: 47 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
339,081 GRT/500,008 DWT; includes 38 cargo, 2 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 3 refrigerated cargo, 1 roll-on/roll-off, 3 bulk

_#_Pipelines: 1,220 km natural gas

_#_Civil air: 15 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 16 total, 12 usable; 12 with permanent-surface runways;
none with runways over 3,659 m; 4 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 6 with
runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: adequate international radio communications and
landline service; fair domestic wire and microwave service; fair
broadcast service; 241,250 telephones; stations--9 AM, 6 FM, 11 TV;
2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT satellite earth stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force; paramilitary forces--Bangladesh
Rifles, Bangladesh Ansars, Armed Police Reserve, Coastal Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 28,896,632; 17,154,593 fit for
military service

_#_Defense expenditures: $319 million, 1.5% of GDP (FY91)
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_@_Barbados
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 430 km2; land area: 430 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly less than 2.5 times the size of
Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 97 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; rainy season (June to October)

_#_Terrain: relatively flat; rises gently to central highland region

_#_Natural resources: crude oil, fishing, natural gas

_#_Land use: arable land 77%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and
pastures 9%; forest and woodland 0%; other 14%

_#_Environment: subject to hurricanes (especially June to October)

_#_Note: easternmost Caribbean island

_*_People
_#_Population: 254,626 (July 1991), growth rate 0.1% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 16 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: - 6 migrants/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 23 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)

_#_Life expectancy at birth: 70 years male, 76 years female (1991)

_#_Total fertility rate: 1.8 children born/woman (1991)

_#_Nationality: noun--Barbadian(s); adjective--Barbadian

_#_Ethnic divisions: African 80%, mixed 16%, European 4%

_#_Religion: Protestant 67