_#_Airports: 138 total, 135 usable; 90 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 36 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 38 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: well engineered, constructed, and operated; 28,000,000 telephones; stations—144 AM, 54 (over 1,800 repeaters) FM, 450 (over 1,300 repeaters) TV; 22 submarine cables; communication satellite earth stations operating in INTELSAT 3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, INMARSAT, and EUTELSAT systems
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Carabinieri
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 14,747,224; 12,877,803 fit for military service; 418,043 reach military age (18) annually
_#Defense expenditures: $19.2 billion, 2.2% of GDP (1990) % @Ivory Coast (also known as Cote d'Ivoire) *Geography #_Total area: 322,460 km2; land area: 318,000 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than New Mexico
_#_Land boundaries: 3,110 km total; Burkina 584 km, Ghana 668 km, Guinea 610 km, Liberia 716 km, Mali 532 km
_#_Coastline: 515 km
_#_Maritime claims:
Continental shelf: 200 m (depth);