4 telephone
circuits/1,000 persons (1991); the telephone system is inadequate both
for business and for personal use; 3.56 million applications for
telephones had not been satisfied as of January 1991; electronic mail
services have been established in Kiev, Odesa, and Luhans'k by Sprint
local: an NMT-450 analog cellular telephone network operates in Kiev
(Kyyiv) and allows direct dialing of international calls through
Kiev's EWSD digital exchange
intercity: NA
international: calls to other CIS countries are carried by land line
or microwave; other international calls to 167 countries are carried
by satellite or by the 150 leased lines through the Moscow gateway
switch; INTELSAT, INMARSAT, and Intersputnik earth stations

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
radios: 15 million

Television:
broadcast stations: NA
televisions: 20 million

@Ukraine:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Republic Security
Forces (internal and border troops), National Guard

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 12,324,832; males fit for
military service 9,667,642; males reach military age (18) annually
359,546 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: 544.3 billion karbovantsi, less than 4% of GDP
(forecast for 1993); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US
dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading
results

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UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

@United Arab Emirates:Geography

Location: Middle East, bordering the Gulf of Oman and the Persian
Gulf, between Oman and Saudi Arabia

Map references: Middle East

Area:
total area: 75,581 sq km
land area: 75,581 sq km
comparative area: slightly smaller than Maine

Land boundaries: total 867 km, Oman 410 km, Saudi Arabia 457 km

Coastline: 1,318 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: location and status of boundary with Saudi
Arabia is not final; no defined boundary with most of Oman, but
Administrative Line in far north; claims two islands in the Persian
Gulf occupied by Iran (Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Bozorg or Greater Tunb, and
Jazireh-ye Tonb-e Kuchek or Lesser Tunb); claims island in the Persian
Gulf jointly administered with Iran (Jazireh-ye Abu Mus