_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Gendarmerie
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,651,224; 842,480 fit for military service; no conscription
_#Defense expenditures: $37 million, 1.6% of GDP (1988 est.) % @Saint Helena (dependent territory of the UK) *Geography #_Total area: 410 km2; land area: 410 km2; includes Ascension, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, Nightingale Island, and Tristan da Cunha
_#_Comparative area: slightly more than 2.3 times the size of Washington, DC
_#_Land boundaries: none
_#_Coastline: 60 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm;
Territorial sea: 12 nm
_#_Climate: tropical; marine; mild, tempered by trade winds