CIA Factbook The World Factbook 1994: LithuaniaCommunications Railroads: 2,000 km (1,524-mm gauge); 120 km electrified Highways: • total: 44,200 km • paved: 35,500 km • unpaved: earth 8,700 km (1990) Inland waterways: 600 km perennially navigable Pipelines: crude oil, 105 km; natural gas 760 km (1992) Ports: coastal—Klaipeda; inland—Kaunas Merchant marine: 44 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 276,265 GRT/323,505 DWT, cargo 29, combination bulk 11, railcar carrier 3, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1 Airports: • total: 96 • usable: 18 • with permanent-surface runways: 12 • with runways over 3,659 m: 0 • with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 5 • with runways 1,060-2,439 m: 11 • note: a C-130 can land on a 1,060-m airstrip Telecommunications: Lithuania ranks among the most modern of the former Soviet republics in respect to its telecommunications system; telephone subscriber circuits 900,000; subscriber density 240 per 1,000 persons; land lines or microwave to former USSR republics; international connections no longer depend on the Moscow gateway switch, but are established by satellite through Oslo from Vilnius and through Copenhagen from Kaunas; 2 satellite earth stations—1 EUTELSAT and 1 INTELSAT; an NMT-450 analog cellular network operates in Vilnius and other cities and is linked internationally through Copenhagen by EUTELSAT; international electronic mail is available; broadcast stations—13 AM, 26 FM, 1 SW, 1 LW, 3 TV