_#_Airports: 2 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 2,439 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: 4,600 telephones in fully automatic network; VHF and UHF link to Saint Lucia; new SHF links to Martinique and Guadeloupe; stations—3 AM, 2 FM, 1 cable TV

_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Commonwealth of Dominica Police Force

_#_Manpower availability: NA

_#Defense expenditures: $NA, NA% of GDP % @Dominican Republic *Geography #_Total area: 48,730 km2; land area: 48,380 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly more than twice the size of New Hampshire

_#_Land boundary 275 km with Haiti

_#_Coastline: 1,288 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Contiguous zone: 24 nm;