Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 409,563 (1998 est.)

Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 19,553 (1998 est.)

Military expenditures-dollar figure: $3.5 billion (FY95/96)

Military expenditures-percent of GDP: 12.8% (FY95/96)

@Kuwait:Transnational Issues

Disputes-international: in November 1994, Iraq formally accepted the UN-demarcated border with Kuwait which had been spelled out in Security Council Resolutions 687 (1991), 773 (1993), and 883 (1993); this formally ends earlier claims to Kuwait and to Bubiyan and Warbah islands; ownership of Qaruh and Umm al Maradim islands disputed by Saudi Arabia

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KYRGYZSTAN

@Kyrgyzstan:Geography

Location: Central Asia, west of China