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1,524 to 2,437 m: 7

       914 to 1,523 m: 15

       under 914 m: 8 (2004 est.)

      Military Cote d'Ivoire

      Military branches:

       Army, Navy, Air Force, paramilitary Gendarmerie, Republican Guard

       (includes Presidential Guard)

      Military manpower - military age and obligation:

       18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service;

       conscript service obligation - 18 months (2004)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 4,135,309 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 2,164,014 (2004 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 204,434 (2004 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $173.6 million (2003)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       1.2% (2003)

      Transnational Issues Cote d'Ivoire

      Disputes - international:

       continuing rebel fighting extends to neighboring states and has

       kept out foreign workers from nearby countries; the Ivorian

       Government accuses Burkina Faso and Liberia of supporting Ivorian

       rebels

      Refugees and internally displaced persons:

       refugees (country of origin): 71,711 (Liberia)

       IDPs: 500,000 (2002 coup; most IDPs are in western regions) (2004)

      Illicit drugs:

       illicit producer of cannabis, mostly for local consumption;

       transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin to

       Europe and occasionally to the US, and for Latin American cocaine

       destined for Europe and South Africa; while rampant corruption and

       inadequate supervision leave the banking system vulnerable to money

       laundering, the lack of a developed financial system limits the

       country's utility as a major money-laundering center

      This page was last updated on 10 February, 2005

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      @Croatia

      Introduction Croatia

      Background:

       The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the

       Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the

       Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as

       Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal

       independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO.

       Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991,

       it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before

       occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under

       UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was

       returned to Croatia in 1998.

      Geography Croatia

      Location:

       Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and

       Herzegovina and Slovenia

      Geographic coordinates:

       45 10 N, 15 30 E

      Map references:

       Europe

      Area:

       total: 56,542 sq km

       water: 128 sq km

       land: 56,414 sq km

      Area - comparative:

       slightly smaller than West Virginia

      Land boundaries:

       total: 2,197 km

       border countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km,

       Serbia and Montenegro (north) 241 km, Serbia and Montenegro (south)

       25 km, Slovenia 670 km

      Coastline:

       5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)

      Maritime claims:

       territorial sea: 12 nm

       continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

      Climate:

       Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with

       hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast

      Terrain:

       geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low

       mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands

      Elevation extremes:

       lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 m

       highest point: Dinara 1,830 m

      Natural resources:

       oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum,

       natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower

      Land use: arable land: 26.09% permanent crops: 2.27% other: 71.65% (2001)

      Irrigated land:

       30 sq km (1998 est.)

      Natural hazards:

       destructive earthquakes

      Environment - current issues: air pollution (from metallurgical plants) and resulting acid rain is damaging the forests; coastal pollution from industrial and domestic waste; landmine removal and reconstruction of infrastructure consequent to 1992–95 civil strife

      Environment - international agreements:

       party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Biodiversity,

       Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous

       Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship

       Pollution, Wetlands

       signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic

       Pollutants, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol

      Geography - note:

       controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and

       Turkish Straits

      People Croatia

      Population:

       4,496,869 (July 2004 est.)

      Age structure:

       0–14 years: 16.6% (male 383,729; female 364,287)

       15–64 years: 67% (male 1,497,525; female 1,515,956)

       65 years and over: 16.4% (male 277,616; female 457,756) (2004 est.)

      Median age:

       total: 39.7 years

       male: 37.7 years

       female: 41.5 years (2004 est.)

      Population growth rate:

       −0.02% (2004 est.)

      Birth rate:

      

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