er 1, oil tanker 1, refrigerated
cargo 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2

Airports:
total: 90
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 6
with paved runways under 914 m: 53
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 23

@Iceland:Communications

Telephone system: 140,000 telephones; adequate domestic service
local: NA
intercity: the trunk network consists of coaxial and fiber-optic
cables and microwave radio relay links
international: 2 earth stations carry all international traffic
through an Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT satellite

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 5, FM 147 (transmitters and repeaters),
shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 202 (transmitters and repeaters)
televisions: NA

@Iceland:Defense Forces

Branches: no regular armed forces; Police, Coast Guard; note -
Iceland's defense is provided by the US-manned Icelandic Defense Force
(IDF) headquartered at Keflavik

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 70,743; males fit for military
service 62,698 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: none

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INDIA

@India:Geography

Location: Southern Asia, bordering the Arabian Sea and the Bay of
Bengal, between Bangladesh and Pakistan

Map references: Asia

Area:
total area: 3,287,590 km2
land area: 2,973,190 km2
comparative area: slightly more than one-third the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 14,103 km, Bangladesh 4,053 km, Bhutan 605 km,
Burma 1,463 km, China 3,380 km, Nepal 1,690 km, Pakistan 2,912 km

Coastline: 7,000 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or to the edge of the continental margin
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: boundaries with Bangladesh and China; status
of Kashmir with Pakistan; water-sharing problems with downstream
riparians, Bangladesh over the Ganges and Pakistan over the Indus

Climate: varies from tropical monsoon in south to temperate in north

Terrain: upland plain (Deccan Plateau) in south, flat to rolling plain
along the Ganges, deserts in west, Himalayas in north

Natural resources: coal (fourth-largest reserves in the world), iron
ore, manganese, mica, bauxite, titanium ore, chromite, natural gas,
diamonds, petroleum, limestone

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