pelines: crude oil, 2,000 km; refined products, 3,804 km; natural
gas, 1,095 km

_#_Ports: Belem, Fortaleza, Ilheus, Manaus, Paranagua, Porto
Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, Salvador, Santos

_#_Merchant marine: 263 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,898,838
GRT/9,975,272 DWT; includes 2 passenger-cargo, 59 cargo, 1 refrigerated
cargo, 13 container, 7 roll-on/roll-off, 60 petroleum, oils, and
lubricants (POL) tanker, 15 chemical tanker, 11 liquefied gas, 14
combination ore/oil, 79 bulk, 2 combination bulk; additionally, 2 naval
tanker and 4 military transport are sometimes used commercially

_#_Civil air: 176 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 3,751 total, 3,078 usable; 401 with permanent-surface
runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 22 with runways 2,240-3,659 m; 533
with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: good system; extensive radio relay facilities;
9.86 million telephones; stations--1,223 AM, no FM, 112 TV, 151
shortwave; 3 coaxial submarine cables 3 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth
stations with total of 3 antennas; 64 domestic satellite stations

_*_Defense Forces
_#_Branches: Brazilian Army, Navy of Brazil (including Marines),
Brazilian Air Force, Federal Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 40,559,052; 27,364,392 fit for
military service; 1,637,434 reach military age (18) annually

_#_Defense expenditures: $1.1 billion, 2.6% of GDP (1990)
_%_
_@_British Indian Ocean Territory
(dependent territory of the UK)
_*_Geography
_#_Total area: 60 km2; land area: 60 km2

_#_Comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 698 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Territorial sea: 3 nm

_#_Disputes: the entire Chagos Archipelago is claimed by Mauritius

_#_Climate: tropical marine; hot, humid, moderated by trade winds

_#_Terrain: flat and low (up to 4 meters in elevation)

_#_Natural resources: coconuts, fish

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

_#_Environment: archipelago of 2,300 islands

_#_Note: Diego Garcia, largest and southernmost island, occupies
strategic location in central Indian Ocean

_*_People
_#_Population: no permanent civilian population; formerly about 3,000
islanders

_#_Ethnic divisions: civilian inhabitants, known as the Ilois,
evacuated to Mauritius before construction of U