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- <title>
- Turkmenistan--Communications
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- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Turkmenistan
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Railroads: 2,120 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Highways: 23,000 km total; 18,300 km hard surfaced, 4,700 km
- earth (1990)
- </p>
- <p>Pipelines: crude oil 250 km, natural gas 4,400 km
- </p>
- <p>Ports: inland - Krasnovodsk (Caspian Sea)
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 7</l>
- <l> useable: 7</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 4</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 4</l>
- </list>
- <p>Telecommunications: poorly developed; only 65 telephones per
- 1000 persons (1991); linked by cable and microwave to other CIS
- republics and to other countries by leased connections to the
- Moscow international gateway switch; a new direct telephone link
- from Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) to Iran has been established;
- satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 INTELSAT for TV
- receive-only service; a newly installed satellite earth station
- provides TV receiver-only capability for Turkish broadcasts
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