<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Argentina<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 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
<item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 208,350 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 57,000 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> gravel 39,500 km; improved/unimproved earth 111,850 km
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<item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 11,000 km navigable
<item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> crude oil 4,090 km; petroleum products 2,900 km; natural gas 9,918 km
<item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Comodoro Rivadavia, La Plata, Rosario, Santa Fe
<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> extensive modern system but many families do not have telephones; 2,650,000 telephones (12,000 public telephones); telephone density 78 per 1000 persons; 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