double track) (1996)

Highways:
total: 91,180 km
paved: 67,473 km (including 109 km of expressways)
unpaved: 23,707 km (1997 est.)

Waterways: 1,577 km along west coast; navigable by 2.4 m draft
vessels maximum

Pipelines: refined petroleum products 53 km

Ports and harbors: Bergen, Drammen, Floro, Hammerfest, Harstad,
Haugesund, Kristiansand, Larvik, Narvik, Oslo, Porsgrunn, Stavanger,
Tromso, Trondheim

Merchant marine:
total: 788 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 21,200,416
GRT/33,642,888 DWT
ships by type: bulk 106, cargo 150, chemical tanker 99, combination
bulk 8, combination ore/oil 39, container 19, liquefied gas tanker
86, multifunction large-load carrier 1, oil tanker 143, passenger
12, refrigerated cargo 15, roll-on/roll-off cargo 52, short-sea
passenger 22, vehicle carrier 36
note: the government has created an internal register, the Norwegian
International Ship register (NIS), as a subset of the Norwegian
register; ships on the NIS enjoy many benefits of flags of
convenience and do not have to be crewed by Norwegians (1998 est.)

Airports: 103 (1998 est.)

Airports--with paved runways:
total: 66
over 3,047 m: 1
2,438 to 3,047 m: 11
1,524 to 2,437 m: 14
914 to 1,523 m: 11
under 914 m: 29 (1998 est.)

Airports--with unpaved runways:
total: 37
914 to 1,523 m: 5
under 914 m: 32 (1998 est.)

Heliports: 1 (1998 est.)

Military

Military branches: Norwegian Army, Royal Norwegian Navy (includes
Coast Artillery and Coast Guard), Royal Norwegian Air Force, Home
Guard

Military manpower--military age: 20 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 1,103,738 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 917,244 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 27,448 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: NA

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

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: territorial claim in Antarctica (Queen
Maud Land); Svalbard is the focus of a maritime boundary dispute in
the Barents Sea between Norway and Russia

Illicit drugs: minor transshipment point for drugs shipped via
the CIS and Baltic states for the European market; increasing
domestic consumption of cannabis and amphetamines

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