_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 394,829; 212,967 fit for military service

_#Defense expenditures: $55 million, 8.6% of GDP (1990 est.) % @Liberia *Geography #_Total area: 111,370 km2; land area: 96,320 km2

_#_Comparative area: slightly larger than Tennessee

_#_Land boundaries: 1,585 km total; Guinea 563 km, Ivory Coast 716 km, Sierra Leone 306 km

_#_Coastline: 579 km

_#_Maritime claims:

Continental shelf: 200 m (depth) or to depth of exploitation;

Territorial sea: 200 nm

_#_Climate: tropical; hot, humid; dry winters with hot days and cool to cold nights; wet, cloudy summers with frequent heavy showers

_#_Terrain: mostly flat to rolling coastal plains rising to rolling plateau and low mountains in northeast