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- Communications
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- Railroads: 2,115 km total; 465 km 1.435-meter (standard) gauge;
- 1,650 km 1.000-meter gauge
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- Highways: 17,700 km total; 9,100 km bituminous; 8,600 km
- improved and unimproved earth
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- Pipelines: crude oil 797 km, petroleum products 86 km, natural
- gas 742 km
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- Ports: Bizerte, Gabes, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, La Goulette, Zarzis
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- Merchant marine: 21 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 160,069
- GRT/218,791 DWT; includes 1 short-sea passenger, 4 cargo, 2
- roll-on/roll-off cargo, 2 petroleum tanker, 6 chemical tanker, 1
- liquefied gas, 5 bulk
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- Civil air: 19 major transport aircraft
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- Airports: 29 total, 26 usable; 13 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 7 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 7 with runways 1,220-2,439 m
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- Telecommunications: the system is above the African average;
- facilities consist of open-wire lines, coaxial cable, and radio
- relay; key centers are Sfax, Sousse, Bizerte, and Tunis;
- 233,000 telephones; 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 to Algeria and Libya; radio relay to Algeria, and Libya
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