_#_Civil air: 11 major transport aircraft

_#_Airports: 73 total, 61 usable; 10 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 22 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

_#_Telecommunications: adequate system of open-wire, radio relay, tropospheric scatter links and radiocommunication stations; 13,800 telephones; stations—6 AM, 6 FM, 8 TV; satellite earth stations—2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 12 domestic satellite

_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Presidential Guard, paramilitary Gendarmerie, National Police

_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 266,472; 133,648 fit for military service; 9,634 reach military age (20) annually

_#Defense expenditures: $102 million, 3.2% of GDP (1990 est.) % @The Gambia *Geography #_Total area: 11,300 km2; land area: 10,000 km2

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

_#_Land boundary: 740 km with Senegal

_#_Coastline: 80 km

_#_Maritime claims: