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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:

        Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
        (Formerly a dependent territory of the UK)


    • 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:

          8%


        meadows and pastures:



        forest and woodland:

          20%


        other:

          9%


    • Irrigated land:

        11,900 sq km (1989 est.)


    • Environment:



        current issues:

          air pollution; water pollution


        natural hazards:

          severe earthquakes
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        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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