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- <text id=93CT0666>
- <title>
- Iran--Communications
- </title>
- <article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Iran
- Communications</hdr><body>
- <p>Railroads: 4,852 km total; 4,760 km 1.432-meter gauge, 92 km
- 1.676-meter gauge; 480 km under construction from Bafq to Bandar-e
- Abbas, rail construction from Bafq to Sirjan has been completed and
- is operational; section from Sirjan to Bandar-e Abbas still under
- construction
- </p>
- <p>Highways: 140,200 km total; 42,694 km paved surfaces; 46,866 km
- gravel and crushed stone; 49,440 km improved earth; 1,200 km (est.)
- rural road network
- </p>
- <p>Inland waterways: 904 km; the Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by
- maritime traffic for about 130 km; channel has been dredged to 3
- meters and is in use
- </p>
- <p>Pipelines: crude oil 5,900 km; petroleum products 3,900 km; natural
- gas 4,550 km
- </p>
- <p>Ports: Abadan (largely destroyed in fighting during 1980-88 war),
- Bandar Beheshti, Bandar-e Abbas, Bandar-e Bushehr, Bandar-e Khomeyni,
- Bandar-e Torkeman (Caspian Sea port), Khorramshahr (repaired after
- being largely destroyed in fighting during 1980-88 war) has been in
- limited operation since November 1992
- </p>
- <p>Merchant marine: 135 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 4,480,726
- GRT/8,332,593 DWT; includes 39 cargo, 6 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 32
- oil tanker, 4 chemical tanker, 3 refrigerated cargo, 48 bulk, 2
- combination bulk, 1 liquefied gas
- </p>
- <list>
- <l>Airports:</l>
- <l> total: 219</l>
- <l> usable: 194</l>
- <l> with permanent-surface runways: 83</l>
- <l> with runways over 3,659 m: 16</l>
- <l> with runways 2,440-3,659 m: 20</l>
- <l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 70</l>
- </list>
- <p>Telecommunications: microwave radio relay extends throughout
- country; system centered in Tehran; 2,143,000 telephones (35
- telephones per 1,000 persons); broadcast stations - 77 AM, 3 FM, 28
- TV; satellite earth stations - 2 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT and 1 Indian
- Ocean INTELSAT; HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey,
- Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; submarine fiber
- optic cable to UAE
- </p></body></article></text>
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