th
American cocaine destined for Western Europe; limited producer of
precursor chemicals

Economic aid:
recipient: assistance pledged by OECD countries since 1989 about $9
billion

Currency: 1 forint (Ft) = 100 filler

Exchange rates: forints per US$1 - 112 (January 1995), 105.16 (1994),
91.93 (1993), 78.99 (1992), 74.74 (1991), 63.21 (1990), 59.07 (1989)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Hungary:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 7,785 km
broad gauge: 35 km 1.520-m gauge
standard gauge: 7,574 km 1.435-m gauge (2,277 km electrified; 1,236 km
double track)
narrow gauge: 176 km mostly 0.760-m gauge (1994)

Highways:
total: 158,711 km
paved: 69,992 km (441 km expressways)
unpaved: 88,719 km (1992)

Inland waterways: 1,622 km (1988)

Pipelines: crude oil 1,204 km; natural gas 4,387 km (1991)

Ports: Budapest, Dunaujvaros

Merchant marine:
total: 10 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 46,121 GRT/61,613
DWT

Airports:
total: 78
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 9
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 14
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 34

@Hungary:Communications

Telephone system: 1,520,000 phones; 14.7 telephones/100 inhabitants
(1993); 14,213 telex lines; automatic telephone network based on
microwave radio relay system; 608,000 telephones on order; 12-15 year
wait for a telephone; 49% of all phones are in Budapest (1991)
local: NA
intercity: microwave radio relay
international: 1 INTELSAT and Intersputnik earth stations

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 32, FM 15, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 41 (Russian repeaters 8)
televisions: NA

@Hungary:Defense Forces

Branches: Ground Forces, Air and Air Defense Forces, Border Guard,
Territorial Defense

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 2,639,860; males fit for
military service 2,105,632; males reach military age (18) annually
86,298 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: 66.5 billion forints, NA% of GDP (1994 est.);
note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the
prevailing exchange rate could produce misleading results

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ICELAND

@Iceland:Geography

Location: Norther