_#_Telecommunications: 3,000 telephones; stations—4 AM, no FM, no TV; 1 Pacific Ocean INTELSAT earth station
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Police Force
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 77,169; NA fit for military service
_#Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP % @Somalia *Geography #_Total area: 637,660 km2; land area: 627,340 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Texas
_#_Land boundaries: 2,340 km total; Djibouti 58 km, Ethiopia 1,600 km, Kenya 682 km
_#_Coastline: 3,025 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Territorial sea: 200 nm
_#_Disputes: southern half of boundary with Ethiopia is a Provisional Administrative Line; territorial dispute with Ethiopia over the Ogaden; possible claims to Djibouti and parts of Ethiopia and Kenya based on unification of ethnic Somalis