Military expenditures—dollar figure: $10.8 million (1996)
Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 1% (1996)
Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: territorial dispute with Tajikistan on southwestern boundary in Isfara Valley area
Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivator of cannabis and opium poppy, mostly for CIS consumption; limited government eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs to Russia and Western Europe from Southwest Asia
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@Laos ——
Geography
Location: Southeastern Asia, northeast of Thailand, west of
Vietnam
Geographic coordinates: 18 00 N, 105 00 E