_#_Pipelines: 554 km crude oil; 2,611 km natural gas; 171 km refined products
_#_Civil air: 25 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 55 total, 54 usable; 20 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 5 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: highly developed and efficient; 4,014,000 telephones; extensive TV and radiobroadcast systems; stations—6 AM, 21 (545 repeaters) FM, 47 (870 repeaters) TV; satellite stations operating in INTELSAT 1 Atlantic Ocean earth station and 1 Indian Ocean earth station and EUTELSAT systems
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Flying Division, Gendarmerie
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,957,414; 1,646,179 fit for military service; 48,038 reach military age (19) annually
_#Defense expenditures: $1.4 billion, 1% of GDP (1990) % @The Bahamas *Geography #_Total area: 13,940 km2; land area: 10,070 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Connecticut
_#_Land boundaries: none
_#_Coastline: 3,542 km