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- <title>
- Tajikistan--Communications
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tajikistan
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Railroads: 480 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
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- <p>Highways: 29,900 km total (1990); 21,400 km hard surfaced,
- 8,500 km earth
- </p>
- <p>Pipelines: natural gas 400 km (1992)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 58</l>
- <l> useable: 30</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 12</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 4</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 13</l>
- </list>
- <p>Telecommunications: poorly developed and not well maintained;
- many towns are not reached by the national network; telephone
- density in urban locations is about 100 per 1000 persons; linked
- by cable and microwave to other CIS republics, and by leased
- connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; satellite
- earth stations - 1 orbita and 2 INTELSAT (TV receive-only; the
- second INTELSAT earth station provides TV receive-only service
- from Turkey)
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