370 km
standard gauge: 370 km 1.435-m gauge; note--207 km belong to the
Jamaica Railway Corporation in common carrier service, but are no
longer operational; the remaining track is privately owned and used
to transport bauxite
Highways:
total: 18,700 km
paved: 13,100 km
unpaved: 5,600 km (1997 est.)
Pipelines: petroleum products 10 km
Ports and harbors: Alligator Pond, Discovery Bay, Kingston,
Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio, Rocky Point, Port Esquivel
(Longswharf)
Merchant marine:
total: 2 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 3,478 GRT/5,878 DWT
ships by type: oil tanker 1, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1 (1998 est.)
Airports: 36 (1998 est.)
Airports--with paved runways:
total: 11
2,438 to 3,047 m: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 3
under 914 m: 5 (1998 est.)
Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 25
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 23 (1998 est.)
Military
Military branches: Jamaica Defense Force (includes Ground Forces,
Coast Guard, and Air Wing), Jamaica Constabulary Force
Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age
Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 715,260 (1999 est.)
Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 503,667 (1999 est.)
Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 26,108 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures--dollar figure: $47.9 million (FY97/98 est.)
Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%
Transnational Issues
Disputes--international: none
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for cocaine from Central and
South America to North America and Europe; illicit cultivation of
cannabis; government has an active manual cannabis eradication
program
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Geography
Location: Northern Europe, island between the Greenland Sea and
the Norwegian Sea, northeast of Iceland
Geographic coordinates: 71 00 N, 8 00 W
Map references: Arctic Region
Area:
total: 373 sq km
land: 373 sq km
water: 0 sq km
Area--comparative: slightly more than twice the size of
Washington, DC
Land boundaries: 0 km
Coastline: 124.1 km
Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 10 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 4 nm
Climate: arctic maritime with freque
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