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Communications
Railroads: 187 km total, all single track 0.914-meter gauge.
Highways: 7,665 km total; 550 km paved, 5,000 km gravel,
1,525 km earth, 590 km unimproved.
Inland waterways: 6,000 km total of navigable waterways;
Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo Rivers are navigable by
oceangoing vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km, respectively.
Ports: Georgetown.
Civil air: 5 major transport aircraft.
Airports: 66 total, 63 usable; 5 with permanent-surface
runways; none with runways over 2,439 m; 12 with runways
1,220-2,439 m.
Telecommunications: fair system with radio relay network;
over 27,000 telephones; tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad;
stations--4 AM, 3 FM, no TV, 1 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean
INTELSAT earth station.