Honduras
Honduras: Travel tips, articles, photos, gallery, cities database, population, pics, flags, statistics, free maps online
Back to Countries, Click to read the whole article: Honduras
Introduction - Honduras: | Location - Honduras: | People - Honduras: | Government - Honduras: | Economy - Honduras: | Communications - Honduras: | Transportation - Honduras: | Military - Honduras: | Military branches | Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry), Honduran Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Hondurena, FAH) (2007) | | Military service age and obligation | 18 years of age for voluntary 2 to 3-year military service (2004) | | Manpower available for military service | males age 18-49: 1,537,232
females age 18-49: 1,515,120 (2005 est.) | | Manpower fit for military service | males age 18-49: 1,100,991
females age 18-49: 1,121,649 (2005 est.) | | Manpower reaching military service age annually | males age 18-49: 82,105
females age 18-49: 78,971 (2005 est.) | | Military expenditures percent of gdp | 0.6% (2006 est.) | | Disputes international | International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of bolsones (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras border in 1992 with final settlement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States (OAS) survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned in the ICJ ruling, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca; Honduras claims the Belizean-administered Sapodilla Cays off the coast of Belize in its constitution, but agreed to a joint ecological park around the cays should Guatemala consent to a maritime corridor in the Caribbean under the OAS-sponsored 2002 Belize-Guatemala Differendum; memorials and countermemorials were filed by the parties in Nicaraguas 1999 and 2001 proceedings against Honduras and Colombia at the ICJ over the maritime boundary and territorial claims in the western Caribbean Sea - final public hearings are scheduled for 2007 | |
This page was last updated on 16 September, 2007 Source: CIA >>> |