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Telephones - main lines in use
4.719 million (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular
9.66 million (2006)
Telephone system
general assessment: highly developed, technologically advanced, and completely automated domestic and international telephone and telegraph facilities
domestic: nationwide cellular telephone system; extensive cable network; limited microwave radio relay network
international: country code - 32; landing point for a number of submarine cables that provide links to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia; satellite earth stations - 7 (Intelsat - 3) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations
AM 7, FM 79, shortwave 1 (1998)
Television broadcast stations
25 (plus 10 repeaters) (1997)
Internet country code
.be
Internet hosts
3.195 million (2007)
Internet users
4.8 million (2005)
Airports
43 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways
total: 27
over 3,047 m: 6
2,438 to 3,047 m: 7
1,524 to 2,437 m: 4
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 9 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways
total: 16
914 to 1,523 m: 1
under 914 m: 15 (2007)
Heliports
1 (2007)
Pipelines
gas 1,561 km; oil 158 km; refined products 535 km (2006)
Railways
total: 3,536 km
standard gauge: 3,536 km 1.435-m gauge (2,950 km electrified) (2006)
Roadways
total: 150,567 km
paved: 117,442 km (includes 1,747 km of expressways)
unpaved: 33,125 km (2004)
Waterways
2,043 km (1,528 km in regular commercial use) (2006)
Merchant marine
total: 68 ships (1000 GRT or over) 3,786,089 GRT/6,074,664 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 20, cargo 5, chemical tanker 2, container 9, liquefied gas 16, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 10, roll on/roll off 5
foreign-owned: 9 (Denmark 3, France 1, Germany 1, Greece 4)
registered in other countries: 123 (Bahamas 15, Bermuda 3, Cyprus 1, France 6, Gibraltar 3, Greece 16, Hong Kong 4, Liberia 1, Luxembourg 9, Malta 10, Marshall Islands 1, Mozambique 2, Netherlands 2, Netherlands Antilles 1, Panama 11, Portugal 9, Russia 6, Sierra Leone 1, Singapore 8, St Kitts and Nevis 1, St Vincent and The Grenadines 9, Vanuatu 4) (2007)
Ports and terminals
Antwerp, Brussels, Gent, Liege, Oostende, Zeebrugge


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