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<title>
Sri Lanka: Communications
</title>
<article><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Sri Lanka
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 1,948 km total (1990); all 1.868-meter broad gauge;
102 km double track; no electrification; government owned
</p>
<p>Highways: 75,749 km total (1990); 27,637 km paved (mostly
bituminous treated), 32,887 km crushed stone or gravel, 14,739
km improved earth or unimproved earth; several thousand km of
mostly unmotorable tracks (1988 est.)
</p>
<p>Inland waterways: 430 km; navigable by shallow-draft craft
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil and petroleum products 62 km (1987)
</p>
<p>Ports: Colombo, Trincomalee
</p>
<p>Merchant marine: 27 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 276,074
GRT/443,266 DWT; includes 12 cargo, 6 refrigerated cargo, 3
container, 3 oil tanker, 3 bulk
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 14</l>
<l> usable: 13</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: 1</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 8</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: very inadequate domestic service, good
international service; 114,000 telephones (1982); broadcast
stations - 12 AM, 5 FM, 5 TV; submarine cables extend to
Indonesia and Djibouti; 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT earth stations
</p></body></article></text>