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<text id=93CT1371>
<title>
Tajikistan--Communications
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Tajikistan
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 480 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
</p>
<p>Highways: 29,900 km total (1990); 21,400 km hard surfaced,
8,500 km earth
</p>
<p>Pipelines: natural gas 400 km (1992)
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 58</l>
<l> useable: 30</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: 4</l>
<l> with runways 1,220-2,439 m: 13</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: poorly developed and not well maintained;
many towns are not reached by the national network; telephone
density in urban locations is about 100 per 1000 persons; linked
by cable and microwave to other CIS republics, and by leased
connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; satellite
earth stations - 1 orbita and 2 INTELSAT (TV receive-only; the
second INTELSAT earth station provides TV receive-only service
from Turkey)
</p></body></article></text>