d rate)

Fiscal year: calendar year

@Bahrain:Transportation

Railroads: 0 km

Highways:
total: 2,670 km
paved: 2,010 km
unpaved: 660 km (1991 est.)

Pipelines: crude oil 56 km; petroleum products 16 km; natural gas 32
km

Ports: Manama, Mina' Salman, Sitrah

Merchant marine:
total: 6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 79,949 GRT/120,900 DWT
ships by type: bulk 1, cargo 4, chemical tanker 1

Airports:
total: 4
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with paved runways under 914 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1

@Bahrain:Communications

Telephone system: 98,000 telephones; 170 telephones/1,000 persons;
modern system; good domestic services; excellent international
connections
local: NA
intercity: NA
international: 2 INTELSAT (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) and 1
ARABSAT earth station; tropospheric scatter to Qatar, UAE; microwave
radio relay to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Qatar, UAE, and Saudi
Arabia

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0
radios: 60 million

Television:
broadcast stations: 2
televisions: 21 million

@Bahrain:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense, Coast Guard, Police
Force

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 210,725; males fit for military
service 117,414; males reach military age (15) annually 4,346 (1995
est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $247 million, 5.5% of
GDP (1994)

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BAKER ISLAND

(territory of the US)

@Baker Island:Geography

Location: Oceania, atoll in the North Pacific Ocean, about one-half of
the way from Hawaii to Australia

Map references: Oceania

Area:
total area: 1.4 sq km
land area: 1.4 sq km
comparative area: about 2.3 times the size of The Mall in Washington,
DC

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 4.8 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: none

Climate: equatorial; scant rainfall, constant wind, burning sun

Terrain: low, nearly level coral island surrounded by a narrow
fringing reef

Natural resources: guano (deposits worked until 1891)

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

Irrigated land: 0 sq km

Environment:
current issues: no natural fresh water resources
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