4.65 million
radios; 4.1 million TVs (1990); 92% of country receives No. 1 television
program (1990)

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Yugoslav People's Army--Ground Forces, Naval Forces, Air
and Air Defense Forces, Frontier Guard, Territorial Defense Force, Civil
Defense

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 6,176,693; 5,001,024 fit for
military service; 189,886 reach military age (19) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: 70.85 billion dinars, 4-6% of GDP (1991
est.); note--conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the
official administratively set exchange rate would produce misleading
results
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_@_Zaire
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 2,345,410 km2; land area: 2,267,600 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than one-quarter the size of US

_#_Land boundaries: 10,271 km total; Angola 2,511 km, Burundi 233 km,
Central African Republic 1,577 km, Congo 2,410 km, Rwanda 217 km, Sudan
628 km, Uganda 765 km, Zambia 1,930 km

_#_Coastline: 37 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Disputes: Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake Tanganyika may no
longer be indefinite since it is reported that the indefinite section of
the Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled; long section with Congo along
the Congo River is indefinite (no division of the river or its islands
has been made)

_#_Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler
and drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands;
north of Equator--wet season April to October, dry season December to
February; south of Equator--wet season November to March, dry season
April to October

_#_Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in
east

_#_Natural resources: cobalt, copper, cadmium, crude oil, industrial
and gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, germanium, uranium,
radium, bauxite, iron ore, coal, hydropower potential

_#_Land use: arable land 3%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and
pastures 4%; forest and woodland 78%; other 15%; includes irrigated
NEGL%

_#_Environment: dense tropical rainforest in central river basin and
eastern highlands; periodic droughts in south

_#_Note: straddles Equator; very narrow strip of land is only outlet
to South Atlantic Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: 37,832,407 (July 1991), growth rate 3.3% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 46 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 13 deaths/1,000 popul