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<text>
<title>
Laos: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Laos
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: none
</p>
<p>Highways: about 27,527 km total; 1,856 km bituminous or bituminous
treated; 7,451 km gravel, crushed stone, or improved earth; 18,220 km
unimproved earth and often impassable during rainy season mid-May to
mid-September
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: about 4,587 km, primarily Mekong and tributaries;
2,897 additional kilometers are sectionally navigable by craft
drawing less than 0.5 m
</p>
<p>Pipelines: petroleum products 136 km
</p>
<p>Ports: none
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 54</l>
<l> usable: 41</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 8</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: 15</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: service to general public practically
non-existant; radio communications network provides generally erratic
service to government users; 7,390 telephones (1986); broadcast
stations - 10 AM, no FM, 1 TV; 1 satellite earth station
</p></body></article></text>