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- <text id=94CT0125><title>Bangladesh—Communications</title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source>
- <hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Bangladesh<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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- <item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 2,892 km total (1986); 1,914 km 1.000 meter gauge, 978 km 1.676 meter broad gauge
- <item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 7,240 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 3,840 km
- <item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> 3,400 km (1985)
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- <item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 5,150-8,046 km navigable waterways (includes 2,575-3,058 km main cargo routes)
- <item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> natural gas 1,220 km
- <item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Chittagong, Chalna
- <item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 41 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 312,172 GRT/458,131 DWT, bulk 3, cargo 33, oil tanker 2, refrigerated cargo 3
- <item><hi format=bold>Airports:</hi>
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- <item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 16
- <item>• <hi format=ital>usable:</hi> 12
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with permanent-surface runways:</hi> 12
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways over 3,659 m:</hi> 0
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 2,440-3,659 m:</hi> 4
- <item>• <hi format=ital>with runways 1,220-2,439 m:</hi> 6
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- <item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> adequate international radio communications and landline service; poor domestic telephone service; 241.250 telephones—only one telephone for each 522 persons; fair broadcast service; broadcast stations—9 AM, 6 FM, 11 TV; 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT satellite earth stations
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