_#_Airports: 37 total, 37 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 8 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radio communication and broadcast service; international radio communication service is poor; 50,000 telephones (1990); stations—88 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth station
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Royal Nepalese Army, Royal Nepalese Army Air Service, Nepalese Police Force
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 4,669,421; 2,420,398 fit for military service; 233,404 reach military age (17) annually
_#Defense expenditures: $38 million, 2% of GDP (FY91) % @Netherlands *Geography #_Total area: 37,290 km2; land area: 33,940 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of New Jersey
_#_Land boundaries: 1,027 km total; Belgium 450 km, Germany 577 km
_#_Coastline: 451 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: not specific;