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- Tanzania: Communications
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- <article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tanzania
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Railroads: 3,555 km total; 960 km 1.067-meter gauge (including
- the 962 km Tazara Railroad); 2,595 km 1.000-meter gauge,
- including 6.4 km double track; 115 km of 1.000-meter gauge
- planned by end of decade
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- <p>Highways: 81,900 km total, 3,600 km paved; 5,600 km gravel or
- crushed stone; 72,700 km improved and unimproved earth
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- <p>Inland waterways: Lake Tanganyika, Lake Victoria, Lake Nyasa
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- <p>Pipelines: crude oil 982 km
- </p>
- <p>Ports: Dar es Salaam, Mtwara, Tanga, and Zanzibar are ocean
- ports; Mwanza on Lake Victoria and Kigoma on Lake Tanganyika are
- inland ports
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- <p>Merchant marine: 6 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 19,185
- GRT/22,916 DWT; includes 2 passenger-cargo, 2 cargo, 1
- roll-on/roll-off cargo, 1 oil tanker
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- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 103</l>
- <l> usable: 92</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 12</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 0</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 4</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 40</l>
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- <p>Telecommunications: fair system operating below capacity; open
- wire, radio relay, and troposcatter; 103,800 telephones;
- broadcast stations - 12 AM, 4 FM, 2 TV; 1 Indian Ocean and 1
- Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station
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