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- <text id=94CT0109><title>The Bahamas—Communications</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: The Bahamas<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 2,400 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 1,350 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> gravel 1,050 km
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- <item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Freeport, Nassau
- <item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 879 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 20,424,439 GRT/33,330,160 DWT, bulk 167, cargo 148, chemical tanker 43, combination bulk 8, combination ore/oil 20, container 48, liquefied gas 18, oil tanker 177, passenger 54, refrigerated cargo 132, roll-on/roll-off cargo 41, short-sea passenger 16, vehicle carrier 7
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> a flag of convenience registry
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- <item><hi format=bold>Airports:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 60
- <item>• <hi format=ital>usable:</hi> 55
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with permanent-surface runways:</hi> 31
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways over 3,659 m:</hi> 0
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 2,440-3,659 m:</hi> 3
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 1,220-2,439 m:</hi> 26
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- <item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> highly developed; 99,000 telephones in totally automatic system; tropospheric scatter and submarine cable links to Florida; broadcast stations—3 AM, 2 FM, 1 TV; 3 coaxial submarine cables; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
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