_#_Airports: 37 total, 18 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 5 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: poor system of radio relay, open-wire lines, and radiocommunications; 3,000 telephones; stations—1 AM, 2 FM, 1 TV; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: People's Revolutionary Armed Force (FARP; including Army, Navy, Air Force), paramilitary force
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 222,371; 126,797 fit for military service
_#Defense expenditures: $5 million, 3.2% of GDP (1987) % @Guyana *Geography #_Total area: 214,970 km2; land area: 196,850 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly smaller than Idaho
_#_Land boundaries: 2,462 km total; Brazil 1,119 km, Suriname 600 km, Venezuela 743 km
_#_Coastline: 459 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: outer edge of continental margin or 200 nm;