<hdr>The World Factbook 1994: Hungary<nl>Communications</hdr><body>
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<item><hi format=bold>Railroads:</hi> 7,765 km total; 7,508 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 222 km narrow gauge (mostly 0.760-meter), 35 km 1.520-meter broad gauge; 1,236 km double track, 2,249 km electrified; all government owned (1990)
<item><hi format=bold>Highways:</hi>
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<item>• <hi format=ital>total:</hi> 130,224 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>paved:</hi> 61,948 km
<item>• <hi format=ital>unpaved:</hi> 68,276 km (1988)
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<item><hi format=bold>Inland waterways:</hi> 1,622 km (1988)
<item><hi format=bold>Pipelines:</hi> crude oil 1,204 km; natural gas 4,387 km (1991)
<item><hi format=bold>Ports:</hi> Budapest and Dunaujvaros are river ports on the Danube; coastal outlets are Rostock (Germany), Gdansk (Poland), Gdynia (Poland), Szczecin (Poland), Galati (Romania), and Braila (Romania)
<item><hi format=bold>Merchant marine:</hi> 10 cargo ships (1,000 GRT or over) and 1 bulk totaling 46,121 GRT/61,613 DWT
<item>• <hi format=ital>note:</hi> a C-130 can land on a 1,060-m airstrip
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<item><hi format=bold>Telecommunications:</hi> automatic telephone network based on microwave radio relay system; 1,128,800 phones (1991); telephone density is at 19.4 per 100 inhabitants; 49% of all phones are in Budapest; 608,000 telephones on order (1991); 12-15 year wait for a phone; 14,213 telex lines (1991); broadcast stations—32 AM, 15 FM, 41 TV (8 Soviet TV repeaters); 4.2 million TVs (1990); 1 satellite ground station using INTELSAT and Intersputnik