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- Communications
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- Railroads: 988 km total; 681 km 1.000-meter gauge; 307 km
- 0.950-meter gauge (nonoperational).
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- Highways: 44,300 km total; 3,650 km bituminous, 9,650 km
- gravel, 3,000 km improved earth, 28,000 km unimproved earth.
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- Ports: Aseb, Mitsiwa.
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- Merchant marine: 14 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 71,837
- GRT/92,067 DWT; includes 10 cargo, 1 roll-on/roll off cargo,
- 1 livestock carrier, 2 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL)
- tanker.
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- Civil air: 21 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 152 total, 111 usable; 9 with permanent-surface runways;
- 2 with runways over 3,659 m; 10 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
- 51 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: open-wire and radio relay system adequate
- for government use; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; radio
- relay to Kenya and Djibouti; stations--4 AM, no FM, 1 TV;
- 45,000 TV sets; 3,300,000 radios; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
- earth station.
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