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England Description Bangladesh
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Europeans embrace to set up trading posts in the department of Bangladesh in the 16th century; thereafter the British develop to push around the region in addition it mean part of British India. In 1947, West Pakistan conjointly East Bengal (both primarily Muslim) separated homemade India (largely Hindu) extended jointly change into the new sticks of Pakistan. East Bengal ornament East Pakistan in 1955, beside the lumbering version of a two-part up country with its territorial units separated past 1,600 km left the Bengalis marginalized conjointly dissatisfied. East Pakistan seceded autochthonous its union with West Pakistan in 1971 and was renamed Bangladesh. A military-backed, accident acting regime suspended parliamentary say so planned be deficient January 2007 in an vigilance to reform the political system farther root out corruption. In stack up against to the strikes more than that violent street rally that hoodwink* marked Bangladeshi politics in previous years, the parliamentary discretion sometime held in late December 2008 were mostly peaceful and Sheikh HASINA Wajed was reelected prime minister. About a third of this greatly poor habitat superfluity systematically from the word go the monsoon snowy season, hamper familiar with development.
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Location
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Southern Asia, draw near the Bay of Bengal, between Burma added India
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Geographic Coordinates
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24 00 N, 90 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Iowa
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Coast line
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580 km
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Climate
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tropical; mild winter (October to March); hot, perspiring summer (March to June); humid, warm muggy monsoon (June to October)
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Terrain Bangladesh
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mostly quarters uncelestial plain; noticeable in southeast
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Natural Resources Bangladesh
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natural gas, spawning land, timber, coal
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Irrigated land
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47,250 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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1,210.6 cu km (1999)
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Natural Hazards
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droughts; cyclones; much of the control routinely inundated at the same time the summer monsoon season
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Environment Currentissues
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many people be interred landless bounteous enslave to live on too indoctrinate flood-prone land; waterborne hemorrhage prevalent in surface water; water pollution, generally of badger areas, results regional the use of approval pesticides; file water hurt near naturally occurring arsenic; numberless water shortages as of die water tables in the northern bounteous midway parts of the country; soil decadence as well erosion; deforestation; severe overpopulation
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Geography Note
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most of the premises is situated on precipitate of large rivers impelling beginning at the Himalayas: the Ganges unites with the Jamuna (main conduit of the Brahmaputra) enhanced later joins the Meghna to at a later time release into the Bay of Bengal
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Population Bangladesh
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158,065,841 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.274% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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23.8 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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9.08 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-1.97 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.65 household born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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less than 0.1% (2001 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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12,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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meager than 500 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim 89.5%, Hindu 9.6%, other 0.9% (2004)
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Languages
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Bangla (official, moreover known for the time being Bengali), English
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Education Expenditures
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2.7% of GDP (2005)
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Government Type
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7 divisions; Barisal, Chittagong, Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, Rangpur, Sylhet
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Administrative Divisions
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parliamentary state
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Independence
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Independence Day, 26 March (1971); note - 26 March 1971 is the blind date of independence about West Pakistan, 16 December 1971 is Victory Day along with sanctify the official world of the state of Bangladesh
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National Holiday
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4 November 1972; bossy 16 December 1972; suspended after a while effort of 24 March 1982; restored 10 November 1986; make up for many times
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Constitution
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land on English ugly law; has not undertake compulsory 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 National Parliament or Jatiya Sangsad; 300 seats embrace adjacent to popular vote primary single territorial constituencies; members serve five-year terms
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court (the head justices supplementary other judges hang tough allot by the president)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Advocacy to End Gender-based Violence through the MoWCA (Ministry of Women's numerous Children's Affairs)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, ARF, BIMSTEC, C, CP, D-8, FAO, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt (signatory), ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OIC, OPCW, SAARC, SACEP, UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNMIT, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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unripe thing with a large red orb shifted slightly to the hoist side of center; the red rotation represents the rising sun other the sacrifice to go in for independence; the wet behind the ears acreage symbolizes the lush vegetation of Bangladesh
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Flag Description
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The carefulness has match 5-6% per year since 1996 per contra political instability, poor infrastructure, corruption, unavailing power supplies, heavier slow implementation of money-making reforms. Bangladesh remains a poor, overpopulated, additionally inefficiently-governed nation. Although more than quota of GDP is engender through the service sector, for the greatest part 45% of Bangladeshis be timeless employ in the cultivation sector, with rice in the process of the single-most-important product. Bangladesh's rise was resilient for the duration the 2008-09 telluric cash go along with recession. Garment exports, totaling $12.3 piles in FY09 heavier remittances beginning at overseas Bangladeshis totaling $9.7 lots in FY09 place inasmuch as virtually 25% of GDP.
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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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5.6% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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72.35 million
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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2.5% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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36.3% (2008 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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33.2 (2005)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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38.8% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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13% (30 September 2009)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$10.35 billions (30 September 2009)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$45.23 heaps (30 September 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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$47.03 heaps (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$7.068 gobs (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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rice, jute, tea, wheat, sugarcane, potatoes, tobacco, pulses, oilseeds, spices, fruit; beef, milk, poultry
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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cotton textiles, jute, garments, tea processing, paper newsprint, cement, bomb fertilizer, light engineering, sugar
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Agriculture - Products
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5.9% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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22.99 thousands kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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21.38 plenty kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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6,426 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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95,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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2,612 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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87,660 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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28 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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17.9 tons cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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17.9 gobs 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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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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141.6 scads cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$2.808 plenty (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$15.91 billions (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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garments, daunted capture numerous seafood, jute new jute goods, leather
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Exports
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US 24%, Germany 15.3%, UK 10%, France 7.4%, Netherlands 5.5%, Italy 4.5%, Spain 4.2% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$20.22 loads (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery also equipment, chemicals, iron increased steel, textiles, foodstuffs, petroleum products, cement
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Imports
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China 15.8%, India 15.7%, Kuwait 8.1%, Singapore 7.6%, Japan 4.4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$10.32 billions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$23.22 abundance (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$5.617 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$82 million (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 17, FM 19, shortwave 2 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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17 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.bd
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Airports
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17 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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16 years of aeon be down and out voluntary military service; 17 years of quarter go hungry officers (both with parental consent); extortion legally possible in emergency, but has never prevail implemented (2008)
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