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- Malawi: Communications
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Malawi
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Railroads: 789 km 1.067-meter gauge
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- <p>Highways: 13,135 km total; 2,364 km paved; 251 km crushed stone,
- gravel, or stabilized soil; 10,520 km earth and improved earth
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- <p>Inland waterways: Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi); Shire River, 144 km
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- <p>Ports: Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, and Nkotakota - all on
- Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi)
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- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 47</l>
- <l> usable: 41</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 5</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 1</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 10</l>
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- <p>Telecommunications: fair system of open-wire lines, radio relay
- links, and radio communications stations; 42,250 telephones;
- broadcast stations - 10 AM, 17 FM, no TV; satellite earth stations -
- 1 Indian Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
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- <p>Note: a majority of exports would normally go through Mozambique
- on the Beira, Nacala, and Limgogo railroads, but now most go through
- South Africa because of insurgent activity and damage to rail lines
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