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<title>
United States: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: United States
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 240,000 km of mainline routes, all standard 1.435
meter track, no government ownership (1989)
</p>
<p>Highways: 7,599,250 km total; 6,230,000 km state-financed
roads; 1,369,250 km federally-financed roads (including 71,825
km interstate limited access freeways) (1988)
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 41,009 km of navigable inland channels,
exclusive of the Great Lakes (est.)
</p>
<p>Pipelines: petroleum 276,000 km (1991), natural gas 331,000 km
(1991)
</p>
<p>Ports: Anchorage, Baltimore, Beaumont, Boston, Charleston,
Chicago, Cleveland, Duluth, Freeport, Galveston, Hampton Roads,
Honolulu, Houston, Jacksonville, Long Beach, Los Angeles,
Milwaukee, Mobile, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Portland
(Oregon), Richmond (California), San Francisco, Savannah,
Seattle, Tampa, Wilmington
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 385 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling
12,567,000 GRT/19,511,000 DWT; includes 3 passenger-cargo, 36
cargo, 23 bulk, 169 tanker, 13 tanker tug-barge, 13 liquefied
gas, 128 intermodal; in addition, there are 219 government-owned
vessels
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 14,177</l>
<l> usable: 12,417</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 4,820</l>
<l> with runways over 3,659 m: 63</l>
<l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 325</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 2,524</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: 126,000,000 telephone access lines;
7,557,000 cellular phone subscribers; broadcast stations - 4,987
AM, 4,932 FM, 1,092 TV; about 9,000 TV cable systems;
530,000,000 radio sets and 193,000,000 TV sets in use; 16
satellites and 24 ocean cable systems in use; satellite ground
stations - 45 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 16 Pacific Ocean
INTELSAT (1990)
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