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- <text id=93CT1413>
- <title>
- Tunisia--Communications
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tunisia
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Railroads: 2,115 km total; 465 km 1.435-meter (standard)
- gauge; 1,650 km 1.000-meter gauge
- </p>
- <p>Highways: 17,700 km total; 9,100 km bituminous; 8,600 km
- improved and unimproved earth
- </p>
- <p>Pipelines: crude oil 797 km, petroleum products 86 km, natural
- gas 742 km
- </p>
- <p>Ports: Bizerte, Gabes, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, La Goulette,
- Zarzis
- </p>
- <p>Merchant marine: 22 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 161,661
- GRT/221,959 DWT; includes 1 short-sea passenger, 4 cargo, 2
- roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 oil tanker, 6 chemical tanker, 1
- liquefied gas, 6 bulk
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 29</l>
- <l> usable: 26</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 13</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 7</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 7</l>
- </list>
- <p>note: a new airport opened 6 May 1993, length and type of
- surface NA
- </p>
- <p>Telecommunications: the system is above the African average;
- facilities consist of open-wire lines, coaxial cable, and
- microwave radio relay; key centers are Sfax, Sousse, Bizerte,
- and Tunis; 233,000 telephones (28 telephones per 1,000 persons);
- broadcast stations - 7 AM, 8 FM, 19 TV; 5 submarine cables;
- satellite earth stations - 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1
- ARABSAT with back-up control station; coaxial cable and
- microwave radio relay to Algeria and Libya
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