_#_Ports: Georgetown
_#_Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 58 total, 55 usable; 5 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; none with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 14 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: fair system with radio relay network; over 27,000 telephones; tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad; stations—4 AM, 3 FM, no TV, 1 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Guyana Defense Force (GDF; includes Coast Guard and Air Corps), Guyana Police Force (GPF), Guyana People's Militia (GPM), Guyana National Service (GNS)
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 195,142; 148,477 fit for military service
_#Defense expenditures: $5.5 million, 6% of GDP (1989 est.) % @Haiti *Geography #_Total area: 27,750 km2; land area: 27,560 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Maryland
_#_Land boundary: 275 km with the Dominican Republic
_#_Coastline: 1,771 km