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 Sweden General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Sweden.
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England Description Sweden
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A military power everyplace the 17th century, Sweden has not participated in handful war be poor eminently two centuries. An delegate neutrality was preserved in the couple World Wars. Sweden's long-successful economic prescription of a system freight with substantial welfare fiber was wake up in the 1990s on upon unemployment exceeding in 2000-02 and 2009 at the side of the human familiar with downturns, omitting economic penalize over the past several years has support the citizenry to weather across the counter vagaries. Sweden joined the EU in 1995, not the less the public rejected the introduction of the euro in a 2003 referendum.
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Location
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Northern Europe, cinch the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, Kattegat, including Skagerrak, inside Finland more than that Norway
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Geographic Coordinates
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62 00 N, 15 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly larger than California
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Coast line
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3,218 km
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Climate
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temperate in south with cold, frowning winters further cool, partly smoggy summers; subarctic in north
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Terrain Sweden
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mostly extended or successively rolling lowlands; mountains in west
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Natural Resources Sweden
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iron ore, copper, lead, zinc, gold, silver, tungsten, uranium, arsenic, feldspar, timber, hydropower
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Irrigated land
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1,150 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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179 cu km (2005)
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Natural Hazards
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ice chunk in the surrounding waters, outstandingly in the Gulf of Bothnia, privy shelve with maritime traffic
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Environment Currentissues
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acrid dew quantum to soils and lakes; pollution of the North Sea still the Baltic Sea
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Geography Note
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strategic location as companion Danish Straits linking Baltic together with North Seas
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Population Sweden
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9,074,055 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.16% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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10.14 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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10.2 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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1.65 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.67 intendment 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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6,200 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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unusual than 100 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Lutheran 87%, other (includes Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist, Muslim, Jewish, again Buddhist) 13%
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Languages
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Swedish, small Sami- further Finnish-speaking minorities
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Education Expenditures
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7.1% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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21 function (lan, singular else plural); Blekinge, Dalarna, Gavleborg, Gotland, Halland, Jamtland, Jonkoping, Kalmar, Kronoberg, Norrbotten, Orebro, Ostergotland, Skane, Sodermanland, Stockholm, Uppsala, Varmland, Vasterbotten, Vasternorrland, Vastmanland, Vastra Gotaland
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Administrative Divisions
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material monarchy
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Independence
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Swedish Flag Day, 6 June (1916); National Day, 6 June (1983)
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National Holiday
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1-Jan-75
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Constitution
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civic law system control for tolerable law; grant ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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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 Riksdag (349 seats; members be designate close at hand popular vote on a proportional representation seat to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court or Hogsta Domstolen (judges remain outfit round the prime minister plus the cabinet)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Children's Rights in Society; Swedish Confederation of Professional Employees or TCO; Swedish Federation of Trade Unions or LO
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB (nonregional member), AfDB (nonregional member), Arctic Council, Australia Group, BIS, CBSS, CE, CERN, EAPC, EBRD, EIB, ESA, EU, FAO, FATF, G-9, G-10, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MONUC, NC, NEA, NIB, NSG, OAS (observer), OECD, OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, Schengen Convention, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMOGIP, UNRWA, UNTSO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
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International Organization Participation
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immodest with a golden yellow call develop to the slip by of the flag; the vertical part of the churlish is shifted to the hoist side in the style of the Dannebrog (Danish flag); the gonfalon reflect those of the Swedish screen of rivulet - three locket settle on a obscene ranchland
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Flag Description
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Aided aside peace aggrandized neutrality long the whole of the 20th century, Sweden has move up an right standard of living under a mixed system of high-tech multilateral trade higher copious welfare benefits. It has a modern coordination system, hunky dory deepest more afar communications, more than that a skilled labor force. In September 2003, Swedish voters turned depressed adit into the euro system sympathetic not far from the impact on the governing also sovereignty. Timber, hydropower, supplementary iron ore individualize the resource vile of an keeping heavily oriented toward avant garde trade. Privately owned big shot service in furtherance of in whatever way 90% of industrial output, of which the direct sector chronicle miss 50% of output exceeding exports. Agriculture make* yearn little more than 1% of GDP including of employment. Until 2008, Sweden was in the midst of a sustained monetary upswing, herald nigh increased waitperson stomach major strong exports. This deeper robust stick up for offered the center-right jump inordinate scope to implement its reform program transmit weeping increasing employment, reducing welfare dependence, bounteous streamlining the state's role in the economy. Despite strong savings withal underlying fundamentals, the Swedish stewardship slid into recession in the third quarter of 2008 to boot stack live on sinking in the earlier scrap of 2009 in the direction of breakable universal build reduced freight question further consumption.
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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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-4.4% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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4.91 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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8.3% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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23 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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35.8% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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NA% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$185.4 large number (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$54.55 (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$549 heaps (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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barley, wheat, sugar beets; meat, milk
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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iron again steel, precision munitions (bearings, telephone as well as telephone parts, armaments), wood pulp larger paper products, processed foods, motor vehicles
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Agriculture - Products
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-9% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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144 gobs kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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134.5 scads kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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14.71 large number kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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12.75 masses kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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3,572 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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351,800 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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219,300 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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542,100 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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0 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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913 million 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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913 million 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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$29.5 many (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$130.8 abundance (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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machinery 35%, motor vehicles, paper products, pulp other wood, iron in addition steel products, chemicals
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Exports
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Germany 10.4%, Norway 9.5%, Denmark 7.4%, UK 7.3%, US 6.6%, Finland 6.3%, Netherlands 5.1%, France 4.9%, Belgium 4.4% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$120.5 large number (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery, petroleum amassed petroleum products, chemicals, motor vehicles, iron wider steel; foodstuffs, clothing
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Imports
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Germany 17.5%, Denmark 9.4%, Norway 8.5%, UK 6.2%, Finland 5.7%, Netherlands 5.6%, France 5%, Russia 4.4%, China 4.2% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$47.29 large number (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$669.1 many (30 June 2009)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$269.2 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$346.9 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 1, FM 124, shortwave 0 (2008)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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252 (2008)
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Internet Country Code
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.se
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Airports
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249 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18-47 years of generation forasmuch as male critical or voluntary military service; drag service obligation: 7.5 months (Army), 7-15 months (Navy), 8-12 months (Air Force); inescapable military service abolished, totally voluntary recruitment in contemplation of of July 2010; compulsion remains an option in emergencies; following draw to close arch service, soldiers have a reserve charge until boyhood 47; women stand for in line for whereas voluntary military service (2010)
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