ll being made to create a national domestic civil
telecommunications network
local: NA
intercity: the network consists of microwave radio relay, cable, and
troposcatter
international: 3 INTELSAT (2 Indian Ocean and 1 Atlantic Ocean), 1
Intersputnik, and 2 ARABSAT earth stations; microwave radio relay to
Saudi Arabia and Djibouti

Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 1, shortwave 0
radios: NA

Television:
broadcast stations: 10
televisions: NA

@Yemen:Defense Forces

Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary (includes Police)

Manpower availability: males age 15-49 3,135,649; males fit for
military service 1,771,226; males reach military age (14) annually
181,057 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - $1.65 billion, 7.1%
of GDP (1993)

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ZAIRE

@Zaire:Geography

Location: Central Africa, northeast of Angola

Map references: Africa

Area:
total area: 2,345,410 sq km
land area: 2,267,600 sq km
comparative area: slightly more than one-quarter the size of US

Land boundaries: total 10,271 km, Angola 2,511 km, Burundi 233 km,
Central African Republic 1,577 km, Congo 2,410 km, Rwanda 217 km,
Sudan 628 km, Uganda 765 km, Zambia 1,930 km

Coastline: 37 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: boundaries with neighbors
territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: Tanzania-Zaire-Zambia tripoint in Lake
Tanganyika may no longer be indefinite since it is reported that the
indefinite section of the Zaire-Zambia boundary has been settled; long
section with Congo along the Congo River is indefinite (no division of
the river or its islands has been made)

Climate: tropical; hot and humid in equatorial river basin; cooler and
drier in southern highlands; cooler and wetter in eastern highlands;
north of Equator - wet season April to October, dry season December to
February; south of Equator - wet season November to March, dry season
April to October

Terrain: vast central basin is a low-lying plateau; mountains in east

Natural resources: cobalt, copper, cadmium, petroleum, industrial and
gem diamonds, gold, silver, zinc, manganese, tin, germanium, uranium,
radium, bauxite, iron ore, coal, hydropower potential

Land use:
arable land: 3%
permanent crops: 0%
meadows and pastures: 4%
forest and woodland: 78%
other: 15%

Irrigated land: 100 sq