Communications (Tajikistan)
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     Railroads:
       480 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
     Highways:
       29,900 km total (1990); 21,400 km hard surfaced, 8,500 km earth
     Pipelines:
       natural gas 400 km (1992)
     Airports:
      total:
       58
      useable:
       30
      with permanent-surface runways:
       12
      with runways over 3,659 m:
       0
      with runways 2,440-3,659 m:
       4
      with runways 1,220-2,439 m:
       13
     Telecommunications:
       poorly developed and not well maintained; many towns are not reached by the
       national network; telephone density in urban locations is about 100 per 1000
       persons; linked by cable and microwave to other CIS republics, and by leased
       connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; satellite earth
       stations - 1 orbita and 2 INTELSAT (TV receive-only; the second INTELSAT
       earth station provides TV receive-only service from Turkey)