Arab Republic of Egypt

Jumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah

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Bob Starkgraf

Telephones - main lines in use:	3,971,500 (December 1998)
Telephones - mobile cellular:	380,000 (1999)
Telephone system:	general assessment: large system; underwent extensive upgrading during 1990s and is reasonably modern; Internet access and cellular service are available domestic: principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia, Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat; 5 coaxial submarine cables; tropospheric scatter to Sudan; microwave radio relay to Israel; a participant in Medarabtel and a signatory to Project Oxygen (a global submarine fiber-optic cable system)
Radio broadcast stations:	AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 14, shortwave 3 (1999)
Radios:	20.5 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:	98 (September 1995)
Televisions:	7.7 million (1997)
Internet country code:	.eg
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):	50 (2000)
Internet users:	600,000 (2002)

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Railways:	total: 4,955 km standard gauge: 4,955 km 1,435-m gauge (42 km electrified; 1,560 km double-track) (2000 est.)
Highways:	total: 64,000 km paved: 50,000 km unpaved: 14,000 km (1996)
Waterways:	3,500 km note: including the Nile, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo Waterway, and numerous smaller canals in the delta; Suez Canal (193.5 km including approaches), used by oceangoing vessels drawing up to 16.1 m of water
Pipelines:	crude oil 1,171 km; petroleum products 596 km; natural gas 460 km
Ports and harbors:	Alexandria, Al Ghardaqah, Aswan, Asyut, Bur Safajah, Damietta, Marsa Matruh, Port Said, Suez
Merchant marine:	total: 175 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,331,186 GRT/1,987,964 DWT ships by type: bulk 23, cargo 58, container 2, liquefied gas 1, passenger 61, petroleum tanker 14, roll on/roll off 13, short-sea passenger 3 note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience:, Denmark 1, Germany 1, Greece 6, Lebanon 3, Monaco 1, Ukraine 1 (2002 est.)
Airports:	92 (2001)
Airports - with paved runways:	total: 71 over 3,047 m: 13 2,438 to 3,047 m: 38 914 to 1,523 m: 2 under 914 m: 3 (2002) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 17
Airports - with unpaved runways:	total: 18 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 under 914 m: 9 (2002) 914 to 1,523 m: 6
Heliports:	2 (2002)

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Military branches:	Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Command
Military manpower - military age:	20 years of age (2002 est.)
Military manpower - availability:	males age 15-49: 19,030,030 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service:	males age 15-49: 12,320,902 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually:	males: 712,983 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure:	$4.04 billion (FY99/00)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP:	4.1% (FY99/00)

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Disputes - international:	Egypt and Sudan each claim to administer triangular areas which extend north and south of the 1899 Treaty boundary along the 22nd Parallel (in the north, the "Hala'ib Triangle", is the largest with 20,580 sq km); in 2001, the two states agreed to discuss an "area of integration" and withdraw military forces in the overlapping areas
Illicit drugs:	transit point for Southwest Asian and Southeast Asian heroin and opium moving to Europe, Africa, and the US; transit stop for Nigerian couriers; concern as money-laundering site due to lax banking regulations

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