Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Popular Defense Force
Militia

Military manpower--military age: 18 years of age

Military manpower--availability:
males age 15-49: 7,942,139 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--fit for military service:
males age 15-49: 4,889,557 (1999 est.)

Military manpower--reaching military age annually:
males: 379,174 (1999 est.)

Military expenditures--dollar figure: $550 million (FY98/99)

Military expenditures--percent of GDP: NA%

Transnational Issues

Disputes--international: administrative boundary with Kenya does
not coincide with international boundary; Egypt asserts its claim to
the "Hala'ib Triangle," a barren area of 20,580 sq km under partial
Sudanese administration that is defined by an administrative
boundary which supersedes the treaty boundary of 1899

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@Suriname
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Geography

Location: Northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic
Ocean, between French Guiana and Guyana

Geographic coordinates: 4 00 N, 56 00 W

Map references: South America

Area:
total: 163,270 sq km
land: 161,470 sq km
water: 1,800 sq km

Area--comparative: slightly larger than Georgia

Land boundaries:
total: 1,707 km
border countries: Brazil 597 km, French Guiana 510 km, Guyana 600 km

Coastline: 386 km

Maritime claims:
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
territorial sea: 12 nm

Climate: tropical; moderated by trade winds

Terrain: mostly rolling hills; narrow coastal plain with swamps

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: unnamed location in the coastal plain -2 m
highest point: Wilhelmina Gebergte 1,286 m

Natural resources: timber, hydropower, fish, kaolin, shrimp,
bauxite, gold, and small amounts of nickel, copper, platinum, iron
ore

Land use:
arable land: NA%
permanent crops: NA%
permanent pastures: 0%
forests and woodland: 96%
other: 4% (1993 est.)

Irrigated land: 600 sq km (1993 est.)

Natural hazards: NA

Environment--current issues: deforestation as timber is cut for
export; pollution of inland waterways by small-scale mining
activities

Environment--international agreements:
party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Law of
the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection,
Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands
signed, but not ratifi