_#_Ports: Conakry, Kamsar
_#_Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 16 total, 16 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 10 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: fair system of open-wire lines, small radiocommunication stations, and new radio relay system; 10,000 telephones; stations—3 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV; 12,000 TV sets; 125,000 radio receivers; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Navy (acts primarily as a coast guard), Air Force, Republican Guard, paramilitary National Gendarmerie, Surete Nationale
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,695,832; 853,593 fit for military service
_#Defense expenditures: $27 million, 1.2% of GDP (1988) % @Guinea-Bissau *Geography #_Total area: 36,120 km2; land area: 28,000 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly less than three times the size of Connecticut
_#_Land boundaries: 724 km total; Guinea 386, Senegal 338 km
_#_Coastline: 350 km