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- Communications
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- Highways: 10,780 km total; 5,170 km bituminous surface treated;
- 5,610 km gravel, crushed stone, and earth.
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- Ports: Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol, Paphos.
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- Merchant marine: 1,100 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 18,093,340 GRT/32,148,550 DWT; includes 1 passenger, 12
- short-sea passenger, 2 passenger-cargo, 434 cargo, 61 refrigerated
- cargo, 18 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 40 container, 94 petroleum,
- oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 1 specialized cargo,
- 3 liquefied gas, 13 chemical tanker, 29 combination ore/oil,
- 341 bulk, 3 vehicle carrier, 48 combination bulk carrier;
- note--a flag of convenience registry; Cuba owns at least
- 20 of these ships and Yugoslavia owns 1.
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- Civil air: 8 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 13 total, 13 usable; 10 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 7 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: excellent in the area controlled by
- the Cypriot Government (Greek area), moderately good in
- the Turkish-Cypriot administered area; 210,000 telephones;
- stations--13 AM, 7 (7 repeaters) FM, 2 (40 repeaters) TV;
- tropospheric scatter circuits to Greece and Turkey; 3 submarine
- coaxial cables; satellite earth stations--INTELSAT, 1 Atlantic
- Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean, and EUTELSAT systems.
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