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- Communications
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- Railroads: 20,638 km route distance total; 35,079 km of
- 1.067-meter gauge trackage (counts double and multiple tracking
- as single track); 314 km of 610 mm gauge.
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- Highways: 188,309 km total; 54,013 km paved, 134,296 km
- crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth.
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- Pipelines: 931 km crude oil; 1,748 km refined products;
- 322 km natural gas.
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- Ports: Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Richard's Bay,
- Saldanha, Mosselbaai, Walvis Bay.
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- Merchant marine: 9 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 275,684
- GRT/273,973 DWT; includes 7 container, 1 vehicle carrier,
- 1 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker.
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- Civil air: 81 major transport aircraft.
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- Airports: 931 total, 793 usable; 124 with permanent-surface runways;
- 4 with runways over 3,659 m; 10 with runways 2,440-3,659 m;
- 213 with runways 1,220-2,439 m.
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- Telecommunications: the system is the best developed, most
- modern, and has the highest capacity in Africa; it consists
- of carrier-equipped open-wire lines, coaxial cables, radio
- relay links, fiber optic cable, and radiocommunication stations;
- key centers are Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg,
- Port Elizabeth, and Pretoria; 4,500,000 telephones; stations--14 AM,
- 286 FM, 67 TV; 1 submarine cable; satellite earth stations--1 Indian
- Ocean INTELSAT and 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT.
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