The 2001 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

      Internet country code: .eg

      Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 50 (2000)

      Internet users: 300,000 (2000)

      Egypt Transportation

      Railways: total: 4,955 km

      standard gauge: 4,955 km 1,435-m gauge (42 km electrified; 1,560 km double track) (2000)

      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: 181 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,336,678 GRT/1,982,220 DWT

      ships by type: bulk 23, cargo 61, container 2, liquefied gas 1, passenger 61, petroleum tanker 15, roll on/roll off 15, short-sea passenger 3 (2000 est.)

      Airports: 90 (2000 est.)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 69

      over 3,047 m: 12

      2,438 to 3,047 m: 35

      1,524 to 2,437 m: 17

      914 to 1,523 m: 2

      under 914 m: 3 (2000 est.)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 21

      2,438 to 3,047 m: 2

      1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

      914 to 1,523 m: 7

      under 914 m: 10 (2000 est.)

      Heliports: 2 (2000 est.)

      Egypt Military

      Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, Air Defense Command

      Military manpower - military age: 20 years of age

      Military manpower - availability: males age 15–49: 18,562,994 (2001 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15–49: 12,020,059 (2001 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 712,983 (2001 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure: $4.04 billion (FY99/00)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 4.1% (FY99/00)

      Egypt Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: Egypt asserts its claim to the "Hala'ib Triangle," a barren area of 20,580 sq km under partial Sudanese administration that is defined by an administrative boundary which supersedes the treaty boundary of 1899

      Illicit drugs: a transit point for Southwest Asian and Southeast Asian heroin and opium moving to Europe, Africa, and the US; popular transit stop for Nigerian couriers

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      @El Salvador

      El Salvador Introduction

      Background: El Salvador achieved independence from Spain in 1821 and from the Central American Federation in 1839. A 12-year civil war, which cost the lives of some 75,000 people, was brought to a close in 1992 when the government and leftist rebels signed a treaty that provided for military and political reforms.

      El Salvador Geography

      Location: Middle America, bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between

       Guatemala and Honduras

      Geographic coordinates: 13 50 N, 88 55 W

      Map references: Central America and the Caribbean

      Area: total: 21,040 sq km

      land: 20,720 sq km

      water: 320 sq km

      Area - comparative: slightly smaller than Massachusetts

      Land boundaries: total: 545 km

      border countries: Guatemala 203 km, Honduras 342 km

      Coastline: 307 km

      Maritime claims: territorial sea: 200 NM

      Climate: tropical; rainy season (May to October); dry season

       (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands

      Terrain: mostly mountains with narrow coastal belt and central plateau

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m

      highest point: Cerro El Pital 2,730 m

      Natural resources: hydropower, geothermal power, petroleum, arable land

      Land use: arable land: 27%

      permanent crops: 8%

      permanent pastures: 29%

      forests and woodland: 5%

      other: 31% (1993 est.)

      Irrigated land: 1,200 sq km (1993 est.)

      Natural hazards: known as the Land of Volcanoes; frequent and sometimes very destructive earthquakes and volcanic activity

      Environment - current issues: deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution; contamination of soils from disposal of toxic wastes; Hurricane Mitch damage

      Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity,

       Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification,

       Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer

       Protection, Wetlands

      signed, but not ratified: Law of the Sea

      Geography - note: smallest Central American country and only one without a coastline on Caribbean Sea

      El Salvador People

      Population: 6,237,662 (July 2001 est.)

      Age structure: 0–14 years: 37.68% (male 1,198,623; female 1,151,584)

      15–64 years: 57.27% (male 1,693,865; female 1,878,254)

      65 years and over: 5.05% (male 142,345; female 172,991) (2001 est.)

      Population growth rate: 1.85% (2001 est.)

      Birth rate: 28.67 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)

      Death rate: 6.18 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)

      Net migration rate: −3.95 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)

      Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female

      under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female

      15–64 years: 0.9 male(s)/female

      65 years and over: 0.82 male(s)/female

      total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2001 est.)

      Infant mortality rate: 28.4 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)

      Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.03 years

      male: 66.43 years

      female: 73.81 years (2001 est.)

      Total fertility rate: 3.34 children born/woman (2001 est.)

      HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.6% (1999 est.)

      HIV/AIDS