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<text>
<title>
Guyana: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Guyana
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 187 km total, all single track 0.914-meter gauge
</p>
<p>Highways: 7,665 km total; 550 km paved, 5,000 km gravel, 1,525 km
earth, 590 km unimproved
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 6,000 km total of navigable waterways; Berbice,
Demerara, and Essequibo Rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels
for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km, respectively
</p>
<p>Ports: Georgetown, New Amsterdam
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 1 cargo ship (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,317
GRT/2,558 DWT
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 53</l>
<l> usable: 48</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: 0</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 13</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: fair system with radio relay network; over
27,000 telephones; tropospheric scatter link to Trinidad; broadcast
stations - 4 AM, 3 FM, no TV, 1 shortwave; 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT
earth station
</p></body></article></text>