a), National Police
Force (Policia Nacional de Bolivia)

Military manpower - military age: 19 years of age (2002 est.)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 2,062,321 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,343,755
(2002 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 90,120
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $147 million (FY99)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1.8% (FY99)

Transnational Issues Bolivia

Disputes - international: continues to demand a sovereign corridor to
the South Pacific Ocean since the Atacama region was lost to Chile in 1884

Illicit drugs: world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Colombia
and Peru) with an estimated 19,900 hectares under cultivation in July
2001, stable from July 2000 levels; intermediate coca products and cocaine
exported to or through Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to the US
and other international drug markets; eradication and alternative crop
programs under the QUIROGA administration has kept pace with farmers'
attempts to increase cultivation after significant reductions in 1998
and 1999

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Burma

Introduction

Burma

Background: Despite multiparty elections in 1990 that resulted in the
main opposition party winning a decisive victory, the ruling military
junta refused to hand over power. Key opposition leader and Nobel Peace
Prize recipient AUNG SAN SUU KYI, under house arrest from 1989 to 1995,
was again placed under house detention in September 2000; her supporters
are routinely harassed or jailed.

Geography Burma

Location: Southeastern Asia, bordering the Andaman Sea and the Bay of
Bengal, between Bangladesh and Thailand

Geographic coordinates: 22 00 N, 98 00 E

Map references: Southeast Asia

Area: total: 678,500 sq km land: 657,740 sq km water: 20,760 sq km

Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Texas

Land boundaries: total: 5,876 km border countries: Bangladesh 193 km,
China 2,185 km, India 1,463 km, Laos 235 km, Thailand 1,800 km

Coastline: 1,930 km

Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM territorial sea: 12 NM
continental shelf: 200 NM or to the edge of the continental margin
exclusive economic zone: 200 NM

Climate: tropical monsoon; cloudy, rainy, hot, humid summers
(southwes