_#_Highways: about 15,700 km total; 1,670 km bituminous, 3,670 km gravel and improved earth, 10,360 km unimproved earth
_#_Inland waterways: 1,815 km navigable
_#_Civil air: no major transport aircraft
_#_Airports: 37 total, 29 usable; 8 with permanent-surface runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 6 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 10 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
_#_Telecommunications: domestic system poor but improving; provides only minimal service with radio relay, wire, and radio communications stations; expansion of radio relay in progress; 11,000 telephones; stations—2 AM, 2 FM, 2 TV; satellite earth stations—1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT
_*Defense Forces #_Branches: Army, Air Force; paramilitary Gendarmerie, Republican Guard, National Guard, National Police
_#_Manpower availability: males 15-49, 1,631,445; 940,954 fit for military service; no conscription
_#Defense expenditures: $45 million, 2.4% of GDP (1988) % @Malta *Geography #_Total area: 320 km2; land area: 320 km2
_#_Comparative area: slightly less than twice the size of Washington, DC
_#_Land boundaries: none