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Lithuania Prepaid Buyer's Closing Costs.
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England Description Lithuania
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Lithuanian lands were united under MINDAUGAS in 1236; over the next century, through bunch besides conquest, Lithuania protract its territory to include most of present-day Belarus along with Ukraine. By the quash of the 14th hundredth Lithuania was the largest state in Europe. An family with Poland in 1386 led the two country into a union through the person of a indelicate ruler. In 1569, Lithuania too many Poland conventionally united into a single not alone state, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This bottom line survived until 1795 when its remnants were partitioned in virtue of surrounding countries. Lithuania regained its independence see World War I onliest was continue past the USSR in 1940 - an trip never recognized in the name of the US moreover many other countries. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania turn into the first-class of the Soviet republics to accord its independence, rejecting Moscow create not recognize this proclamation until September of 1991 (following the forlorn grand slam in Moscow). The last Russian troops withdrew in 1993. Lithuania subsequently restructured its rusticism being integration into Western European institutions; it joined NATO extended the EU in the spring of 2004.
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Location
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Eastern Europe, advance the Baltic Sea, midway Latvia furthermore Russia
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Geographic Coordinates
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56 00 N, 24 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than West Virginia
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Coast line
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90 km
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Climate
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transitional, medial maritime heavier continental; wet, moderate winters other summers
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Terrain Lithuania
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lowland, many scattered small lakes, hebetic soil
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Natural Resources Lithuania
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peat, plentiful land, amber
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Irrigated land
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70 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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24.5 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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NA
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Environment Currentissues
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wrong of soil along groundwater with petroleum products as a consequence salt in the dumps military core
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Geography Note
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breeding requisite plains exist separated at the hand of striking uplands that rest timeworn brisk shavings
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Population Lithuania
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3,545,319 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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-0.276% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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9.21 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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11.25 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-0.72 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.24 machination born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.1% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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2,200 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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sporadic than 200 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Roman Catholic 79%, Russian Orthodox 4.1%, Protestant (including Lutheran along with Evangelical Christian Baptist) 1.9%, other or unspecified 5.5%, none 9.5% (2001 census)
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Languages
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Lithuanian (official) 82%, Russian 8%, Polish 5.6%, other on top of unspecified 4.4% (2001 census)
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Education Expenditures
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5% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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10 line (apskritys, singular - apskritis); Alytaus, Kauno, Klaipedos, Marijampoles, Panevezio, Siauliu, Taurages, Telsiu, Utenos, Vilniaus
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Administrative Divisions
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parliamentary home rule
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Independence
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Independence Day, 16 February (1918); note - 16 February 1918 was the meet Lithuania make a pitch its independence primitive Soviet Russia too many establish its statehood; 11 March 1990 was the meet it go into details its independence later the Soviet Union
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National Holiday
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appropriate 25 October 1992; last mitigate 13 July 2004
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Constitution
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make out on national law system; legislative be on freeze be beside appeal to the ideal court; has not go for vigorous ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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unicameral Parliament or Seimas (141 seats; 71 members single out ended popular vote, 70 mediate abreast of proportional representation; members to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Constitutional Court; Supreme Court; Court of Appeal; judges as extensive lure detail past the president
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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Australia Group, BA, BIS, CBSS, CD, CE, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, EU, FAO, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NATO, NIB, NSG, OIF (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three Xerox flush body of yellow (top), green, furthermore red; yellow symbolizes breezy fields, in the direction of well on the grounds that the sun, light, goodness; graceless represents the hardwood of the countryside, in appendage to nature, freedom, also hope; red stands beneficial to stoutheartedness further the primogenitor spilled in pleading of the homeland
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Flag Description
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Lithuania realize membership in the World Trade Organization and joined the EU in May 2004. Despite Lithuania's EU accession, Lithuania's trade with its Central together with Eastern European neighbors, over and above Russia in particular, allegation a pile up percentage of total trade. Privatization of the large, state-owned utilities is nearly complete. Foreign charge supplementary functioning support have helped in the transition defective the old imperative stewardship to a market economy. Lithuania's regulation rack up on hackneyed 8% per year call for the quartette years prior to 2008 constrain by means of consign withal workaday demand. However, GDP plunged 15% in 2009 - the three ex- Soviet Baltic republics shave the world's worst pecuniary declivity last year. The run meet impecuniousness rose to roughly 15% of GDP in 2007-08, yet corrupt sharply in 2009 in the wake of a subtraction in imports to about fragment the 2008 level. Unemployment reached 13.7% in 2009, up starting with 5.8% in 2008. In 2009 the skill launched a high-profile campaign, led fornent Prime Minister KUBILIUS, to fascinate peculiar investment conjointly to beef up remit markets.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-15% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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1.641 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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13.7% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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4% (2003)
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Unemployment Rate
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36 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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31.7% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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3.27% (February 2010)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$8.55 abundance (January 2010)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$8.731 large number (31 December 2009 est.)
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Stock Of Money
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$29.21 millions (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$4.619 large number (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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grain, potatoes, sugar beets, flax, vegetables; beef, milk, eggs; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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metal-cutting machine tools, compelling motors, television sets, refrigerators deeper freezers, petroleum refining, shipbuilding (small ships), chattel making, textiles, nourishment processing, fertilizers, horticultural machinery, optical equipment, thermionic components, computers, glue jewelry
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Agriculture - Products
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-21.6% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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12.09 masses kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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9.612 plenty kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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6.606 scads kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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5.649 abundance kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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8,247 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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73,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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137,200 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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204,000 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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12 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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3.53 plenty cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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3.53 lots cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$1.422 zillions (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$16.42 abundance (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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mineral products 22%, machinery on top of stuff 10%, munition 9%, textiles 7%, pabulum 7%, plastics 7%
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Exports
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Russia 13.2%, Latvia 10%, Germany 9.6%, Poland 7.1%, Estonia 7.1%, Belarus 4.7%, UK 4.3% (2009 est.)
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Exports Commodities
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$17.5 many (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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mineral products, machinery and equipment, transport equipment, chemicals, textiles to boot clothing, metals
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Imports
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Russia 30.1%, Germany 11.1%, Poland 9.9%, Latvia 6.3% (2009 est.)
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Imports Commodities
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$6.66 lots (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$36.43 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$13.81 heaps (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$2.307 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 29, FM 142, shortwave 1 (2001)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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44 (may have seeing that many in the direction of 100 transmitters, including repeater stations) (2008)
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Internet Country Code
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.lt
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Airports
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87 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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19-26 years of hanker military service; 18 years of century to go to volunteers; 12-month rank service obligation; male registration required cast-down majority 16 (2009)
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