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1 April - 31 March

      @Botswana, Communications

      Railroads:

       712 km 1.067-meter gauge

       Highways:

       total:

       11,514 km

       paved:

       1,600 km

       unpaved:

       crushed stone, gravel 1,700 km; improved earth 5,177 km; unimproved

       earth 3,037 km

       Airports:

       total:

       101

       usable:

       90

       with permanent-surface runways:

       9

       with runways over 3,659 m:

       0

       with runways 2,440–3,659 m:

       1

       with runways 1,220–2,439 m:

       30

       Telecommunications:

       the small system is a combination of open-wire lines, microwave radio

       relay links, and a few radio-communications stations; 26,000

       telephones; broadcast stations - 7 AM, 13 FM, no TV; 1 Indian Ocean

       INTELSAT earth station

      @Botswana, Defense Forces

      Branches:

       Botswana Defense Force (including Army and Air Wing), Botswana

       National Police

       Manpower availability:

       males age 15–49 294,603; fit for military service 154,997; reach

       military age (18) annually 15,156 (1994 est.)

       Defense expenditures:

       exchange rate conversion - $196 million, 4.9% of GDP (FY93/94)

      @Bouvet Island

      Header Affiliation: (territory of Norway)

      @Bouvet Island, Geography

      Location: Southern Africa, in the South Atlantic Ocean, 2,575 km south-southwest of the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) Map references: Antarctic Region Area: total area: 58 sq km land area: 58 sq km comparative area: about 0.3 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: 0 km Coastline: 29.6 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 4 nm International disputes: none Climate: antarctic Terrain: volcanic; maximum elevation about 800 meters; coast is mostly inaccessible Natural resources: none Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% (all ice) Irrigated land: 0 sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: NA international agreements: NA Note: covered by glacial ice

      @Bouvet Island, People

      Population: uninhabited

      @Bouvet Island, Government

      Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Bouvet Island Digraph: BV Type: territory of Norway Capital: none; administered from Oslo, Norway Independence: none (territory of Norway)

      @Bouvet Island, Economy

      Overview: no economic activity

      @Bouvet Island, Communications

      Ports:

       none; offshore anchorage only

       Telecommunications:

       automatic meteorological station

      @Bouvet Island, Defense Forces

      Note: defense is the responsibility of Norway

      @Brazil, Geography

      Location:

       Eastern South America, bordering the Atlantic Ocean

       Map references:

       South America, Standard Time Zones of the World

       Area:

       total area:

       8,511,965 sq km

       land area:

       8,456,510 sq km

       comparative area:

       slightly smaller than the US

       note:

       includes Arquipelago de Fernando de Noronha, Atol das Rocas, Ilha da

       Trindade, Ilhas Martin Vaz, and Penedos de Sao Pedro e Sao Paulo

       Land boundaries:

       total 14,691 km, Argentina 1,224 km, Bolivia 3,400 km, Colombia 1,643

       km, French Guiana 673 km, Guyana 1,119 km, Paraguay 1,290 km, Peru

       1,560 km, Suriname 597 km, Uruguay 985 km, Venezuela 2,200 km

       Coastline:

       7,491 km

       Maritime claims:

       contiguous zone:

       24 nm

       continental shelf:

       200-m depth or to depth of exploitation

       exclusive economic zone:

       200 nm

       territorial sea:

       12 nm

       International disputes:

       short section of the boundary with Paraguay, just west of Salto das

       Sete Quedas (Guaira Falls) on the Rio Parana, is in dispute; two short

       sections of boundary with Uruguay are in dispute - Arroio Invernada

       (Arroyo de la Invernada) area of the Rio Quarai (Rio Cuareim) and the

       islands at the confluence of the Rio Quarai and the Uruguay River

       Climate:

       mostly tropical, but temperate in south

       Terrain:

      

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