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<text id=93CT1426>
<title>
Turkmenistan--Communications
</title>
<article><source>CIA Factbook</source><hdr>The World Factbook 1993: Turkmenistan
Communications</hdr><body>
<p>Railroads: 2,120 km; does not include industrial lines (1990)
</p>
<p>Highways: 23,000 km total; 18,300 km hard surfaced, 4,700 km
earth (1990)
</p>
<p>Pipelines: crude oil 250 km, natural gas 4,400 km
</p>
<p>Ports: inland - Krasnovodsk (Caspian Sea)
</p>
<list>
<l>Airports:</l>
<l> total: 7</l>
<l> useable: 7</l>
<l> with permanent-surface runways: 4</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: 4</l>
</list>
<p>Telecommunications: poorly developed; only 65 telephones per
1000 persons (1991); linked by cable and microwave to other CIS
republics and to other countries by leased connections to the
Moscow international gateway switch; a new direct telephone link
from Ashgabat (Ashkhabad) to Iran has been established;
satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 INTELSAT for TV
receive-only service; a newly installed satellite earth station
provides TV receiver-only capability for Turkish broadcasts
</p></body></article></text>