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- Communications
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- Railroads: 34,172 km total (includes 209 km electrified);
- includes a mixture of 1.435-meter standard gauge, 1.676-meter
- broad gauge, 1.000-meter narrow gauge, and 0.750-meter narrow
- gauge
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- Highways: 208,350 km total; 47,550 km paved, 39,500 km gravel,
- 101,000 km improved earth, 20,300 km unimproved earth
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- Inland waterways: 11,000 km navigable
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- Pipelines: crude oil 4,090 km; petroleum products 2,900 km;
- natural gas 9,918 km
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- Ports: Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Necochea, Rio Gallegos,
- Rosario, Santa Fe
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- Merchant marine: 98 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 1,235,385 GRT/1,952,307 DWT; includes 35 cargo, 6 refrigerated
- cargo, 6 container, 1 railcar carrier, 33 oil tanker, 4 chemical
- tanker, 3 liquefied gas, 10 bulk; in addition, 2 naval tankers
- and 1 military transport are sometimes used commercially
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- Civil air: 56 major transport aircraft
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- Airports: 1,702 total, 1,473 usable; 137 with permanent-surface
- runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 31 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 326 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
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- Telecommunications: extensive modern system; 2,650,000
- telephones (12,000 public telephones); microwave widely used;
- broadcast stations - 171 AM, no FM, 231 TV, 13 shortwave; 2
- Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth stations; domestic satellite
- network has 40 earth stations
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