Read Ebook: The 1996 CIA World Factbook by United States Central Intelligence Agency

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Fiscal year: calendar year

Railways: total: 13 km private line narrow gauge: 13 km 0.610-m gauge

Highways: total: 2,443 km paved: 1,296 km unpaved: 1,147 km

Waterways: 209 km; navigable by craft drawing less than 1.2 m

Pipelines: crude oil 135 km; petroleum products 418 km; natural gas 920 km

Ports: Bandar Seri Begawan, Kuala Belait, Muara, Seria, Tutong

Merchant marine: total: 7 liquefied gas tankers totaling 348,476 GRT/340,635 DWT

Airports: total: 2 with paved runways over 3 047 m: 1 with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 1

Heliports: 3

Telephones: 76,900

Telephone system: service throughout country is adequate for present needs; international service good to adjacent Malaysia domestic: NA international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat

Radio broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 4, shortwave 0

Radios: 115,000

Television broadcast stations: 1

Televisions: 78,000

Branches: Land Forces, Navy, Air Force, Royal Brunei Police

Manpower availability: males age 15-49: 83,641 males fit for military service: 48,559 males reach military age annually: 2,918

Defense expenditures: exchange rate conversion - 2 million, 6.2% of GDP

Location: 43 00 N, 25 00 E -- Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey

Description: three equal horizontal bands of white , green, and red; the national emblem formerly on the hoist side of the white stripe has been removed - it contained a rampant lion within a wreath of wheat ears below a red five-pointed star and above a ribbon bearing the dates 681 and 1944

Location: Southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey

Geographic coordinates: 43 00 N, 25 00 E

Map references: Europe

Area: total area: 110,910 sq km land area: 110,550 sq km comparative area: slightly larger than Tennessee

Land boundaries: total: 1,808 km border countries: Greece 494 km, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia 148 km, Romania 608 km, Serbia and Montenegro 318 km , Turkey 240 km

Coastline: 354 km

Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm

International disputes: none

Climate: temperate; cold, damp winters; hot, dry summers

Terrain: mostly mountains with lowlands in north and southeast lowest point: Black Sea 0 m highest point: Musala 2,925 m

Natural resources: bauxite, copper, lead, zinc, coal, timber, arable land

Land use: arable land: 34% permanent crops: 3% meadows and pastures: 18% forest and woodland: 35% other: 10%

Irrigated land: 10 sq km

Environment: current issues: air pollution from industrial emissions; rivers polluted from raw sewage, heavy metals, detergents; deforestation; forest damage from air pollution and resulting acid rain; soil contamination from heavy metals from metallurgical plants and industrial wastes natural hazards: earthquakes, landslides international agreements: party to - Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulphur 85, Antarctic Treaty, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Air Pollution-Sulphur 94, Air Pollution-Volatile Organic Compounds, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Biodiversity, Law of the Sea

Geographic note: strategic location near Turkish Straits; controls key land routes from Europe to Middle East and Asia

Population: 8,612,757

Age structure: 0-14 years: 17% 15-64 years: 68% 65 years and over: 15%

Population growth rate: 0.46%

Birth rate: 8.33 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 13.55 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: 9.81 migrant/1,000 population

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male/female under 15 years: 1.05 male/female 15-64 years: 0.99 male/female 65 years and over: 0.76 male/female all ages: 0.96 male/female

Infant mortality rate: 15.7 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 71 years male: 67.07 years female: 75.12 years

Total fertility rate: 1.17 children born/woman

Nationality: noun: Bulgarian adjective: Bulgarian

Ethnic divisions: Bulgarian 85.3%, Turk 8.5%, Gypsy 2.6%, Macedonian 2.5%, Armenian 0.3%, Russian 0.2%, other 0.6%

Religions: Bulgarian Orthodox 85%, Muslim 13%, Jewish 0.8%, Roman Catholic 0.5%, Uniate Catholic 0.2%, Protestant, Gregorian-Armenian, and other 0.5%

Languages: Bulgarian, secondary languages closely correspond to ethnic breakdown

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 98% male: 99% female: 97%

Name of country: conventional long form: Republic of Bulgaria conventional short form: Bulgaria

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