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FACTBOX: NATO's Kosovo peace force
(Reuters) - NATO troops came under fire during Serb riots in the ethnically divided town of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo on Monday, in the worst violence in the territory since the Albanian majority declared independence last month.
Some 16,000 NATO-led peacekeepers remain in Kosovo from the 46,000 deployed in June 1999, after NATO's 78-day bombing pushed Serb forces out and halted the killing of ethnic Albanians.
The following table, by country, lists KFOR troops as of February 4 (** denotes a non-NATO member):
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Italy 2567
Germany 2374
France 2269
United States 1456
Turkey 752
Spain 637
Greece 605
Hungary 564
Czech Republic 435
Poland 320
Denmark 305
Portugal 296
Belgium 193
Slovenia 160
Romania 147
Slovakia 135
United Kingdom 135
Bulgaria 42
Lithuania 32
Estonia 29
Luxembourg 23
Norway 22
Latvia 19
Netherlands 6
Austria 561 **
Finland 391 **
Sweden 331 **
Ireland 279 **
Morocco 213 **
Switzerland 209 **
Ukraine 184 **
Georgia 182 **
Armenia 34 **
Azerbaijan 34 **
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15,941
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SOURCE: KFOR (www.nato.int/kfor/structur/nations/placemap/kfor-placemap.pdf)
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