_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 644,895; 444,522 fit for military service; no conscription

_#Defense expenditures: $75.5 million, 1.5% of GDP (1990) % @Papua New Guinea *Geography #_Total area: 461,690 km2; land area: 451,710 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than California

_#_Land boundary: 820 km with Indonesia

_#_Coastline: 5,152 km

_#_Maritime claims: (measured from claimed archipelagic baselines);

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Exclusive economic zone: 200 nm;

Territorial sea: 12 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; northwest monsoon (December to March), southeast monsoon (May to October); slight seasonal temperature variation