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- Communications
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- Highways: 1,500 km total; 1,000 km bituminous, 500 km gravel
- or natural surface (est.).
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- Pipelines: crude oil, 235 km; natural gas, 400 km.
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- Ports: Doha, Musayid, Halul Island.
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- Merchant marine: 12 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 273,318
- GRT/420,227 DWT; includes 7 cargo, 3 container, 2 petroleum,
- oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker.
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- Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 4 total, 4 usable; 1 with permanent-surface runways;
- 1 with runways over 3,659 m; none with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
- 2 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: modern system centered in Doha; 110,000
- telephones; tropospheric scatter to Bahrain; radio relay
- to Saudi Arabia; submarine cable to Bahrain and UAE; stations--
- 2 AM, 1 FM, 3 TV; satellite earth stations--1 Atlantic Ocean
- INTELSAT, 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT, 1 ARABSAT.
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