program; transshipmentpoint for illicit drugs to Western Europe
Economic aid:
recipient:
wheat from Turkey
Currency:
1 manat = 100 gopik
Exchange rates:
NA
Fiscal year:
calendar year
@Azerbaijan, Communications
Railroads:
2,090 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
Highways:
total:
36,700 km
paved or graveled:
31,800 km
unpaved:
earth 4,900 km (1990)
Pipelines:
crude oil 1,130 km; petroleum products 630 km; natural gas 1,240 km
Ports:
inland - Baku (Baky)
Airports:
total:
65
usable:
33
with permanent-surface runways:
26
with runways over 3,659 m:
0
with runways 2,440–3,659 m:
8
with runways 1,220–2,439 m:
23
Telecommunications:
domestic telephone service is of poor quality and inadequate; 710,000
domestic telephone lines [density - 9 lines per 100 persons (1991)],
202,000 persons waiting for telephone installations (January 1991);
connections to other former USSR republics by cable and microwave and
to other countries via the Moscow international gateway switch;
INTELSAT earth station installed in late 1992 in Baku with Turkish
financial assistance with access to 200 countries through Turkey;
since August 1993 an earth station near Baku has provided direct
communications with New York through Russia's Stationar-11 satellite;
a joint venture to establish a cellular telephone system (Bakcel) in
the Baku area is supposed to become operational in 1994; domestic and
Russian TV programs are received locally and Turkish and Iranian TV is
received from an INTELSAT satellite through a receive-only earth
station
@Azerbaijan, Defense Forces
Branches:
Army, Air Force, Navy, Maritime Border Guard, National Guard, Security
Forces (internal and border troops)
Manpower availability:
males age 15–49 1,884,458; fit for military service 1,525,123; reach
military age (18) annually 68,192 (1994 est.)
Defense expenditures:
2,848 million rubles, NA% of GDP (1992 est.); note - conversion of the
military budget into US dollars using the current exchange rate could
produce misleading results
@The Bahamas, Geography
Location:
Caribbean, in the western North Atlantic Ocean, southeast of Florida
and northwest of Cuba
Map references:
Central America and the Caribbean, North America, Standard Time Zones
of the World
Area:
total area:
13,940 sq km
land area:
10,070 sq km
comparative area:
slightly larger than Connecticut
Land boundaries:
0 km
Coastline:
3,542 km
Maritime claims:
continental shelf:
200-m depth or to depth of exploitation
exclusive fishing zone:
200 nm
territorial sea:
3 nm
International disputes:
none
Climate:
tropical marine; moderated by warm waters of Gulf Stream
Terrain:
long, flat coral formations with some low rounded hills
Natural resources:
salt, aragonite, timber
Land use:
arable land:
1%
permanent crops:
0%
meadows and pastures:
0%
forest and woodland:
32%
other:
