_#_Merchant marine: 12 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,831 GRT/4,506 DWT
_#_Civil air: 9 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 173 total, 159 usable; 26 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 11 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: very good domestic telephone service; 292,000 telephones; connection into Central American Microwave System; stations—71 AM, no FM, 18 TV, 13 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard; note—Constitution prohibits armed forces
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 807,853; 545,541 fit for military service; 32,149 reach military age (18) annually
_#Defense expenditures: $20 million, 0.4% of GDP (1988) % @Cuba *Geography #_Total area: 110,860 km2; land area: 110,860 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Pennsylvania
_#_Land boundary: 29.1 km with US Naval Base at Guantanamo; note—Guantanamo is leased and as such remains part of Cuba
_#_Coastline: 3,735 km