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Honduras

Branches:

Army, Navy (includes Marines), Air Force, Public Security Forces (FUSEP)

Manpower availability:

males age 15-49 1,275,670; males fit for military service 760,113; males reach military age (18) annually 62,405 (1995 est.)

Defense expenditures:

exchange rate conversion - $41 million, about 0.4% of GDP (1994)

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HONG KONG

Affiliation:

Location:

Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

Map references:

Southeast Asia

Area:

total area:

1,040 sq km

land area:

990 sq km

comparative area:

slightly less than six times the size of Washington, DC

Land boundaries:

total 30 km, China 30 km

Coastline:

733 km

Maritime claims:

3 nm

International disputes:

none

Climate:

temperate; mild, wet winters; hot, dry summers

Terrain:

mostly mountains with ranges extending into sea as peninsulas or chains of islands

Natural resources:

bauxite, lignite, magnesite, petroleum, marble

Land use:

arable land:

23%

permanent crops:

meadows and pastures:

forest and woodland:

20%

other:

Irrigated land:

11,900 sq km (1989 est.)

Environment:

current issues:

air pollution; water pollution

natural hazards:

severe earthquakes

international agreements:

party to - Air Pollution, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Desertification, Law of the Sea

Note:

strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and southern approach to Turkish Straits; a peninsular country, possessing an archipelago of about 2,000 islands

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