in Luxembourg

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Luxembourg:Transportation

Railroads:
total: 271 km
standard gauge: 271 km 1.435-m gauge (243 km electrified; 178 km
double track) (1994)

Highways:
total: 5,108 km
paved: 5,062 km (95 km of limited access divided highway)
unpaved: 46 km (1992)

Inland waterways: 37 km; Moselle River

Pipelines: petroleum products 48 km

Ports: Mertert

Merchant marine:
total: 45 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,129,466 GRT/1,790,988
DWT
ships by type: bulk 6, cargo 2, chemical tanker 4, combination bulk 6,
container 2, liquefied gas tanker 8, oil tanker 7, passenger 2,
refrigerated cargo 6, roll-on/roll-off cargo 2

Airports:
total: 2
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 1
with paved runways under 914 m: 1

@Luxembourg:Communications

Telephone system: 230,000 telephones; highly developed, completely
automated and efficient system, mainly buried cables; nationwide
mobile phone system
local: NA
intercity: buried cable
international: 3 channels leased on TAT-6 coaxial submarine cable

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 3 and 1 direct-broadcast satellite link
televisions: NA

@Luxembourg:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, National Gendarmerie

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 103,990; males fit for military
service 85,912; males reach military age (19) annually 2,190 (1995
est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $129 million, 1.2% of
GDP (1994)

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MACAU

(overseas territory of Portugal)

@Macau:Geography

Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

Map references: Southeast Asia

Area:
total area: 16 sq km
land area: 16 sq km
comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries: total 0.34 km, China 0.34 km

Coastline: 40 km

Maritime claims: not specified

International disputes: none

Climate: subtropical; marine with cool winters, warm summers

Terrain: generally flat

Natural resources: negligible

Land use:
arable land: 0%
permanent crops: 0%
meadows and pastures: 0%
forest and woodland: 0%
other: 100%

Irrigated land: NA sq km

Environment:
current issues: NA
natural hazards: NA
international agreements: party to - Ozone Layer Protection (extended
from Portugal)