Airports:
total: 11
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
with unpaved runways over 3,047 m: 2
with unpaved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 1
with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 2
@Albania:Communications
Telephone system: about 55,000 telephones; about 15 telephones/1,000
persons
local: primitive; about 11,000 telephones in Tirane, the capital city
intercity: obsolete wire system; no longer provides a telephone for
every village; in 1992, following the fall of the communist
government, peasants cut the wire to about 1,000 villages and used it
to build fences
international: inadequate; carried through the Tirane exchange and
transmitted through Italy on 240 microwave radio relay circuits and
through Greece on 150 microwave radio relay circuits
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 17, FM 1, shortwave 0
radios: 515,000 (1987 est.)
Television:
broadcast stations: 9
televisions: 255,000 (1987 est.)
@Albania:Defense Forces
Branches: Army, Navy, Air and Air Defense Forces, Interior Ministry
Troops, Border Guards
Manpower availability: males age 15-49 919,085; males fit for military
service 755,574; males reach military age (19) annually 33,323 (1995
est.)
Defense expenditures: 330 million leke, NA% of GNP (1993); note - conversion of defense expenditures into US dollars using the current exchange rate could produce misleading results
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