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- Railroads: 9.6 km (single track) 1.524-meter gauge from
- Kushka (USSR) to Towraghondi and 15.0 km from Termez (USSR)
- to Kheyrabad transshipment point on south bank of Amu Darya.
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- Highways: 21,000 km total (1984); 2,800 km hard surface,
- 1,650 km bituminous-treated gravel and improved earth, 16,550 km
- unimproved earth and tracks.
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- Inland waterways: total navigability 1,200 km; chiefly Amu
- Darya, which handles steamers up to about 500 metric tons.
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- Pipelines: petroleum, oil, and lubricants pipelines--USSR
- to Bagram and USSR to Shindand; natural gas, 180 km.
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- Ports: Shir Khan and Kheyrabad (river ports).
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- Civil air: 2 TU-154, 2 Boeing 727, assorted smaller transports.
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- Airports: 38 total, 34 usable; 9 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 10 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 15 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: limited telephone, telegraph, and radiobroadcast
- services; television introduced in 1980; 31,200 telephones;
- stations--5 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 1 satellite earth station.
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