996 est.)

Waterways: 16,180 km; 3,631 km navigable by large vessels

Pipelines: crude oil 3,005 km; petroleum products 2,687 km; natural
gas 1,700 km (1995)

Ports and harbors: Calcutta, Chennai (Madras), Cochin, Jawaharal
Nehru, Kandla, Mumbai (Bombay), Vishakhapatnam

Merchant marine:
total: 299 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 6,605,619 GRT/10,988,439
DWT
ships by type: bulk 126, cargo 58, chemical tanker 9, combination bulk
1, combination ore/oil 3, container 11, liquefied gas tanker 9, oil
tanker 75, passenger-cargo 5, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1, short-sea
passenger 1 (1997 est.)

Airports: 343 (1997 est.)

Airports-with paved runways:
total: 237
over 3,047 m: 12
2,438 to 3,047 m: 47
1,524 to 2,437 m: 87
914 to 1,523 m: 72
under 914 m: 19 (1997 est.)

Airports-with unpaved runways:
total: 106
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 47
under 914 m: 51 (1997 est.)

Heliports: 16 (1997 est.)

@India:Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, various security or
paramilitary forces (includes Border Security Force, Assam Rifles, and
Coast Guard)

Military manpower-military age: 17 years of age

Military manpower-availability:
males age 15-49: 263,765,005 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-fit for military service:
males: 154,925,081 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-reaching military age annually:
males: 10,566,718 (1998 est.)

Military expenditures-dollar figure: $8 billion (FY95/96)

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 2.7% (FY95/96)

@India:Transnational Issues

Disputes-international: boundary with China in dispute; status of
Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with Pakistan over the
Indus River (Wular Barrage); a portion of the boundary with Bangladesh
is indefinite

Illicit drugs: world's largest licit producer of opium for the
pharmaceutical trade, but an undetermined quantity of opium is
diverted to illicit international drug markets; major transit country
for illicit narcotics produced in neighboring countries; illicit
producer of hashish and methaqualone; cultivated 2,050 hectares of
opium in 1997, a 34% decrease from 1996, with a potential production
of 30 metric tons, a 36% decrease from 1996

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INDIAN OCEAN

@Indian Ocean:Geography

Location: body of water between Africa, Antarctica, Asia, and
Australia

Geographic coordinates: 30 00 S, 80 00 E

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