Military manpower—reaching military age annually:
males: 45,050 (1999 est.)
Military expenditures—dollar figure: $88 million (1998)
Military expenditures—percent of GDP: 3% (1998)
Transnational Issues
Disputes—international: Caspian Sea boundaries are not yet determined among Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan
Illicit drugs: limited illicit cultivator of opium poppy, mostly for domestic consumption; limited government eradication program; increasingly used as transshipment point for illicit drugs from Southwest Asia to Russia and Western Europe; also a transshipment point for acetic anhydride destined for Afghanistan
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Geography
Location: Caribbean, two island groups in the North Atlantic
Ocean, southeast of The Bahamas