tural
gas 6,400 km (1992)

Ports: Braila, Constanta, Galatz, Mangalia, Sulina, Tulcea

Merchant marine:
total: 238 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,528,971 GRT/3,849,943
DWT
ships by type: bulk 46, cargo 167, container 2, oil tanker 14,
passenger-cargo 1, railcar carrier 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 7
note: in addition, Romania owns 20 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
1,207,388 DWT that operate under Liberian, Maltese, Cypriot, and
Bahamian registry

Airports:
total: 156
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 4
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 9
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 17
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 108

@Romania:Communications

Telephone system: about 2.3 million telephones; 99 telephones/1,000
persons; 89% of phone network is automatic; poor service; cable and
open wire
local: NA
intercity: trunk network is microwave; roughly 3,300 villages with no
service (February 1990)
international: 1 INTELSAT earth station; new digital international
direct dial exchanges are in Bucharest (1993)

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 12, FM 5, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 13 (1990)
televisions: NA

@Romania:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Paramilitary Forces,
Civil Defense

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 5,934,524; males fit for
military service 5,002,287; males reach military age (20) annually
196,587 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: 1,260 billion lei, 3% of GDP (1994); note -
conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current
exchange rate could produce misleading results

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RUSSIA

@Russia:Geography

Location: Northern Asia (that part west of the Urals is sometimes
included with Europe), bordering the Arctic Ocean, between Europe and
the North Pacific Ocean

Map references: Asia

Area:
total area: 17,075,200 sq km
land area: 16,995,800 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than 1.8 times the size of the US

Land boundaries: total 20,139 km, Azerbaijan 284 km, Belarus 959 km,
China (southeast) 3,605 km, China (south) 40 km, Estonia 290 km,
Finland 1,313 km, Georgia 723 km, Kazakhstan 6,846 km, North Korea 19
km, Latvia 217 km, Lithuania (Kaliningr