st.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 6
914 to 1,523 m: 2
under 914 m: 4 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Police
Force

Military manpower--military age: 19 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 539,329 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 434,468 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 17,291 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $71 million (1998)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: 2.2% (1998)

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: dispute with Greece over name; in
September 1995, Skopje and Athens signed an interim accord resolving
their dispute over symbols and certain constitutional provisions;
Athens also lifted its economic embargo on The Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia; the border commission formed by The Former
Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Serbia and Montenegro in April
1996 to resolve differences in delineation of their mutual border
has made no progress so far; Albanians in Macedonia claim
discrimination in education, access to public-sector jobs and
representation in government; Party for Democratic Action (DPA),
which is now a member party of the government, calls for a rewrite
of the constitution to declare ethnic Albanians a national group and
allow for regional autonomy

Illicit drugs: increasing transshipment point for Southwest Asian
heroin and hashish; minor transit point for South American cocaine
destined for Europe

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Geography

Location: Southern Africa, island in the Indian Ocean, east of
Mozambique

Geographic coordinates: 20 00 S, 47 00 E

Map references: Africa

Area:
total: 587,040 sq km
land: 581,540 sq km
water: 5,500 sq km

Area--comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Arizona

Land boundaries: 0 km

Coastline: 4,828 km

Maritime claims:
contiguous zone: 24 nm
continental shelf: 200 nm or 100 nm from the 2,500-m deep isobath
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

Climate: tropical along coast, temperate inland, arid in south

Terrain: narrow coastal plain, high plateau and mountains in
center

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0