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- Communications
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- Railroads: 670 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, single track,
- owned and operated by government mining company.
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- Highways: 7,525 km total; 1,685 km paved; 1,040 km gravel,
- crushed stone, or otherwise improved; 4,800 km unimproved
- roads, trails, tracks.
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- Inland waterways: mostly ferry traffic on the Senegal River.
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- Ports: Nouadhibou, Nouakchott.
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- Merchant marine: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
- 1,272 GRT/ 1,840 DWT.
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- Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 30 total, 29 usable; 9 with permanent-surface
- runways; none with runways over 3,659 m; 4 with runways
- 2,440-3,659 m; 17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: poor system of cable and open-wire lines,
- minor radio relay links, and radio communications stations;
- 5,200 telephones; stations--2 AM, no FM, 1 TV; satellite
- earth stations--1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 2 ARABSAT,
- with a third planned.
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