<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Egypt<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 5,110 km total; 4,763 km 1,435-meter standard gauge, 347 km 0.750-meter gauge; 951 km double track; 25 km electrified
<item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 45,500 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 18,300 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> gravel 12,503 km; earth 14,697 km
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<item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 3,500 km (including the Nile, Lake Nasser, Alexandria-Cairo Waterway, and numerous smaller canals in the delta); Suez Canal, 193.5 km long (including approaches), used by oceangoing vessels drawing up to 16.1 meters of water
<item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> crude oil 1,171 km; petroleum products 596 km; natural gas 460 km
<item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Alexandria, Port Said, Suez, Bur Safajah, Damietta
<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> large system by Third World standards but inadequate for present requirements and undergoing extensive upgrading; 600,000 telephones (est.)—11 telephones per 1,000 persons; principal centers at Alexandria, Cairo, Al Mansurah, Ismailia Suez, and Tanta are connected by coaxial cable and microwave radio relay; international traffic is carried by satellite—one earth station for each of Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT, Indian Ocean INTELSAT, ARABSAT and INMARSAT; by 5 coaxial submarine cables, microwave troposcatter (to Sudan), and microwave radio relay (to Libya, Israel, and Jordan); broadcast stations—39 AM, 6 FM, and 41 TV