general assessment: inadequate system
domestic: NA
international: country code - 504; satellite earth stations - 2
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean); connected to Central American Microwave
System
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 241, FM 53, shortwave 12 (1998)
Radios:
2.45 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
11 (plus 17 repeaters) (1997)
Televisions:
570,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.hn
Internet hosts:
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 (2003)
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:
La Ceiba, Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela, Puerto
Lempira
Merchant marine:
total: 238 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 598,600 GRT/616,158 DWT
registered in other countries: 16 (2004 est.)
foreign-owned: Argentina 1, Bahrain 1, British Virgin Islands 1,
Bulgaria 1, Cayman Islands 1, China 4, Costa Rica 1, Cyprus 1, Egypt
5, El Salvador 1, Greece 16, Hong Kong 3, Indonesia 2, Israel 1,
Italy 1, Japan 2, Jordan 1, South Korea 9, Lebanon 4, Liberia 4,
Maldives 2, Marshall Islands 3, Mexico 1, Nigeria 2, Panama 10,
Philippines 1, Russia 1, Saint Kitts and Nevis 3, Saint Vincent and
the Grenadines 1, Saudi Arabia 1, Singapore 22, Spain 1, Taiwan 2,
Tanzania 1, Thailand 1, Turkey 2, Turks and Caicos Islands 1, United
States 7, Vanuatu 1, Vietnam 1
by type: bulk 12, cargo 139, chemical tanker 5, combination bulk 1,
container 5, liquefied gas 1, livestock carrier 1, passenger 3,
passenger/cargo 2, petroleum tanker 54, refrigerated cargo 8, roll
on/roll off 4, short-sea/passenger 3
Airports:
115 (2003 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 (including Naval Infantry), Air Force
Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for voluntary 2–3 year military service (2004)
Military manpower - availability:
males age 15–49: 1,642,029 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 15–49: 977,130 (2004 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 76,143 (2004 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$99.8 million (2003)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
1.5% (2003)
Transnational Issues Honduras
Disputes - international:
in 1992, ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed
areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border, and the OAS is
assisting with a technical resolution of bolsones; in 2003, the ICJ
rejected El Salvador's request to revise its decision on one
bolsone; 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 by the ICJ, 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; Nicaragua filed a claim against Honduras in 1999 and
against Colombia in 2001 at the ICJ over a complex maritime dispute
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 10 February, 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
water: 50 sq km
land: 1,042 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