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Communications
Railroads: 1,045 km; 806 km 1.000-meter gauge, 239 km 1.435-meter
standard gauge.
Highways: 30,100 km total; 1,145 km paved, 12,955 km gravel
or laterite (of which barely 4,500 km are currently all-weather
roads), 16,000 km unimproved earth (1987).
Inland waterways: 1,295 km navigable by shallow-draft native
craft.
Ports: Conakry, Kamsar.
Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 16 total, 16 usable; 5 with permanent-surface
runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 3 with runways
2,440-3,659 m; 9 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: fair system of open-wire lines, small
radiocommunication stations, and new radio relay system;
10,000 telephones; stations--3 AM, 1 FM, 1 TV; 12,000 TV
sets; 125,000 radio receivers; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth station.