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Are there only two smooth manifolds with a field structure: real numbers and complex numbers?

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Are there only two smooth manifolds with a field structure?

Is it true that in the category of connected smooth manifolds equipped with a compatible field structure (all six operations are smooth) there are only two objects (up to isomorphism) - $\mathbb{R}$ and $\mathbb{C}$?