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US Military Worldwide

US military personnel are stationed in at least 140 countries outside the US.

# Country Military
1 Afghanistan (not available) 0
2 Albania 8
3 Algeria 7
4 Antigua 2
5 Argentina 28
6 Australia 574
7 Austria 24
8 Azerbaijan 5
9 Bahamas, The 25
10 Bahrain 1,514
11 Bangladesh 7
12 Barbados 7
13 Belgium 1,526
14 Belize 1
15 Bolivia 19
16 Bosnia and Herzegovina 3,041
17 Botswana 6
18 Brazil 34
19 Bulgaria 12
20 Burma 9
21 Burundi 6
22 Cambodia 5
23 Cameroon 9
24 Canada 141
25 Chad 10
26 Chile 25
27 China (Includes Hong Kong) 53
28 Colombia 54
29 Congo (Kinshasa) 9
30 Costa Rica 6
31 Cote D'Ivoire 20
32 Cuba (Guantanamo) 697
33 Cyprus 34
34 Czech Republic 14
35 Denmark 21
36 Diego Garcia 528
37 Djibouti 498
38 Dominican Republic 14
39 Ecuador 33
40 Egypt 385
41 El Salvador 21
42 Eritrea 2
43 Estonia 6
44 Ethiopia 14
45 Fiji 1
46 Finland 16
47 France 93
48 Georgia 45
49 Germany * 74,796
50 Ghana 12
51 Gibraltar 5
52 Greece 583
53 Greenland 139
54 Guatemala 14
55 Guinea 8
56 Haiti 13
57 Honduras 414
58 Hungary 15
59 Iceland 1,747
60 India 26
61 Indonesia (Includes Timor) 21
62 Iraq (See OIF) 0
63 Ireland 7
64 Israel 36
65 Italy * 13,152
66 Jamaica 10
67 Japan 40,519
68 Jordan 24
69 Kazakhstan 5
70 Kenya 33
71 Korea, Democratic Peoples Republic of 24
72 Korea, Republic of 41,145
73 Kuwait (See OIF) 0
74 Kyrgyzstan 27
75 Laos 5
76 Latvia 6
77 Lebanon 3
78 Liberia 61
79 Lithuania 6
80 Luxembourg 12
81 Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 41
82 Madagascar 2
83 Malawi 1
84 Malaysia 19
85 Mali 5
86 Malta 3
87 Mexico 30
88 Mongolia 2
89 Morocco 14
90 Mozambique 5
91 Nepal 7
92 Netherlands 703
93 New Zealand 7
94 Nicaragua 10
95 Niger 5
96 Nigeria 14
97 Norway 86
98 OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom) 183,002
99 Oman 32
100 Pakistan 33
101 Paraguay 10
102 Peru 33
103 Philippines 107
104 Poland 18
105 Portugal 1,094
106 Qatar 2,997
107 Romania 16
108 Russia 78
109 Saudi Arabia 953
110 Senegal 8
111 Serbia (includes Kosovo) 319
112 Sierra Leone 1
113 Singapore 171
114 Slovenia 10
115 South Africa 31
116 Spain 1,893
117 Sri Lanka 7
118 St. Helena (Includes Ascension Island) 2
119 Suriname 2
120 Sweden 11
121 Switzerland 18
122 Syria 9
123 Tanzania, United Republic of 7
124 Thailand 132
125 Togo 6
127 Trinidad and Tobago 6
128 Tunisia 15
129 Turkey 2,021
130 Turkmenistan 5
131 Uganda 7
132 Ukraine 13
133 United Arab Emirates 73
134 United Kingdom 11,616
135 Uruguay 12
136 US - Continental United States (CONUS) * 974,571
137 US state - Alaska 16,282
139 US state - Hawaii 34,203
138 US territory - Guam 3,293
140 US territory - Johnston Atoll 17
141 US territory - Puerto Rico 1,562
142 US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 22
143 US Virgin Islands 5
144 Venezuela 21
145 Vietnam 17
146 Yemen 23
147 Zambia 7
148 Zimbabwe 8
* - Service members deployed to OIF (Operation Iraqi Freedom)
are included in these countries' totals.

Source:  Active Duty Military Personnel Strengths by Regional Area and by Country (309A) (PDF file) from the US Department of Defense,30 September 2003.

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*America's Empire of Bases by Chalmers Johnson, 15 January 2004.

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