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       1,944 (2003)

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs):

       8 (2000)

      Internet users:

       168,600 (2002)

      Transportation Honduras

      Railways: total: 699 km narrow gauge: 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m gauge (2004)

      Highways: total: 13,603 km paved: 2,775 km unpaved: 10,828 km (1999 est.)

      Waterways:

       465 km (most navigable only by small craft) (2004)

      Ports and harbors:

       Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela

      Merchant marine:

       total: 137 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 598,600 GRT/616,158 DWT

       by type: bulk carrier 10, cargo 67, chemical tanker 6, container 2,

       liquefied gas 1, livestock carrier 1, passenger 4, passenger/cargo

       5, petroleum tanker 30, refrigerated cargo 9, roll on/roll off 1,

       specialized tanker 1

       foreign-owned: 44 (Canada 1, China 3, Egypt 1, Greece 4, Hong Kong

       2, Israel 1, Japan 4, Lebanon 1, Mexico 1, Singapore 12, South Korea

       6, Taiwan 2, Tanzania 1, Turkey 1, United States 2, Vanuatu 1,

       Vietnam 1)

       registered in other countries: 1 (2005)

      Airports:

       115 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 11 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 3 under 914 m: 3 (2004 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 104 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 914 to 1,523 m: 18 under 914 m: 84 (2004 est.)

      Military Honduras

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry), Air Force

      Military service age and obligation:

       18 years of age for voluntary 2–3 year military service (2004)

      Manpower available for military service:

       males age 18–49: 1,448,369 (2005 est.)

      Manpower fit for military service:

       males age 18–49: 955,019 (2005 est.)

      Manpower reaching military service age annually:

       males: 77,399 (2005 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $100.6 million (2004)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       1.4% (2004)

      Transnational Issues Honduras

      Disputes - international:

       in 1992, ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed

       areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border, but despite OAS

       intervention and a further ICJ ruling in 2003, full demarcation of

       the border remains stalled; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite

       resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with

       consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador

       continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned in the ICJ

       ruling, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras claims

       Sapodilla Cays off the coast of Belize, but agreed to creation of a

       joint ecological park and Guatemalan corridor in the Caribbean in

       the failed 2002 Belize-Guatemala Differendum, which the OAS is

       attempting to revive; Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in

       1999 and against Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over a complex dispute

       over islands and maritime boundaries in the Caribbean Sea

      Illicit drugs:

       transshipment point for drugs and narcotics; illicit producer of

       cannabis, cultivated on small plots and used principally for local

       consumption; corruption is a major problem; some money-laundering

       activity

      This page was last updated on 20 October, 2005

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      @Hong Kong

      Introduction Hong Kong

      Background:

       Occupied by the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was formally ceded by China

       the following year; various adjacent lands were added later in the

       19th century. Pursuant to an agreement signed by China and the UK on

       19 December 1984, Hong Kong became the Hong Kong Special

       Administrative Region (SAR) of China on 1 July 1997. In this

       agreement, China has promised that, under its "one country, two

       systems" formula, China's socialist economic system will not be

       imposed on Hong Kong and that Hong Kong will enjoy a high degree of

       autonomy in all matters except foreign and defense affairs for the

       next 50 years.

      Geography Hong Kong

      Location:

       Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China

      Geographic coordinates:

       22 15 N, 114 10 E

      Map references:

       Southeast Asia

      Area:

       total: 1,092 sq km

       land: 1,042 sq km

       water: 50 sq km

      Area - comparative:

       six times the size of Washington, DC

      Land boundaries: total: 30 km regional border: China 30 km

      Coastline:

       733 km

      Maritime claims:

       territorial sea: 3 nm

      Climate:

       tropical monsoon; cool and humid in winter, hot and rainy from

       spring through summer, warm and sunny in fall

      Terrain:

       hilly to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north

      Elevation extremes:

       lowest point: South China Sea 0 m

       highest point: Tai Mo Shan 958 m

      Natural resources:

       outstanding deepwater harbor, feldspar

      Land use: arable land: 5.05% permanent crops: 1.01% other: 93.94% (2001)

      Irrigated land:

       20 sq km (1998 est.)

      Natural hazards:

       occasional typhoons

      Environment - current issues:

       air and water pollution from rapid urbanization

      Environment - international agreements:

       party to: Marine Dumping (associate member)

      Geography - note:

       more than 200 islands

      People