_#_Ports: El Aaiun, Ad Dakhla

_#_Airports: 16 total, 14 usable; 3 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 6 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: sparse and limited system; tied into Morocco's system by radio relay, tropospheric scatter, and 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations linked to Rabat, Morocco; 2,000 telephones; stations—2 AM, no FM, 2 TV

_*Defense Forces #_Branches: NA

_#_Manpower availability: NA

_#Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP % @Western Samoa *Geography #_Total area: 2,860 km2; land area: 2,850 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Rhode Island

_#_Land boundaries: none

_#_Coastline: 403 km

_#_Maritime claims: