<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Guinea<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 1,045 km; 806 km 1.000-meter gauge, 239 km 1.435-meter standard gauge
<item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 30,100 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 1,145 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> gravel, crushed stone 12,955 km (of which barely 4,500 are currently all-weather roads); unimproved earth 16,000 km (1987)
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<item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native craft
<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> poor to fair system of open-wire lines, small radiocommunication stations, and new radio relay system; 15,000 telephones; broadcast stations—3 AM 1 FM, 1 TV; 65,000 TV sets; 200,000 radio receivers; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station