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Kingdom of Nepal
COMMUNICATIONS
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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236,816 (January 2000) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular:
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NA |
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Telephone system:
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general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone network
domestic: NA international: radiotelephone communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean) |
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Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (January 2000) |
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Radios:
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840,000 (1997) |
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Television broadcast stations:
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1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998) |
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Televisions:
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130,000 (1997) |
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Internet country code:
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.np |
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
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6 (2000) |
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Internet users:
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60,000 (2002) |
TRANSPORTATION
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Railways:
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total: 59 km
narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge note: all in Kosi close to Indian border (2001) |
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Highways:
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total: 13,223 km
paved: 4,073 km unpaved: 9,150 km (April 1999) |
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Waterways:
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none |
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Ports and harbors:
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none |
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Airports:
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45 (2001) |
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Airports - with paved runways:
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total: 9
over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 7 (2002) |
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Airports - with unpaved runways:
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total: 36
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 7 under 914 m: 28 (2002) |
MILITARY
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Military branches:
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Royal Nepalese Army (includes Royal Nepalese Army Air Service), Nepalese Police Force |
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Military manpower - military age:
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17 years of age (2002 est.) |
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Military manpower - availability:
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males age 15-49: 6,484,343 (2002 est.) |
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Military manpower - fit for military service:
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males age 15-49: 3,369,454 (2002 est.) |
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Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
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males: 292,589 (2002 est.) |
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Military expenditures - dollar figure:
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$51.5 million (FY01) |
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Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
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1% (FY01) |
TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES
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Disputes - international:
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formed Joint Border committee with India in 2001 to resolve 53 disputed sections of boundary covering an area of 720 sq km; approximately 100,000 Bhutanese refugees living in Nepal, 90% of whom reside in seven UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees camps, place decades-long strains on Nepal |
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Illicit drugs:
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illicit producer of cannabis for the domestic and international drug markets; transit point for opiates from Southeast Asia to the West |