_#_Telecommunications: improved, but still inadequate; connection into Central American Microwave System; 35,100 telephones; stations—176 AM, no FM, 28 TV, 7 shortwave; 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Navy (including Marines), Air Force, Public Security Forces (FUSEP)
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,106,630; 659,520 fit for military service; 58,953 reach military age (18) annually
_#Defense expenditures: $82.5 million, 1.9% of GDP (1990 est.) % @Hong Kong (dependent territory of the UK) *Geography #_Total area: 1,040 km2; land area: 990 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly less than six times the size of Washington, DC
_#_Land boundary: 30 km with China
_#_Coastline: 733 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Exclusive fishing zone: 3 nm;
Territorial sea: 3 nm