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Bangladesh:
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Other pages in this profile of Bangladesh:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
1.134 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
19.131 million (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: totally inadequate for a modern country; fixed-line telephone density of less than 1 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density of 13 per 100 persons domestic: modernizing; introducing digital systems; trunk systems include VHF and UHF microwave radio relay links, and some fiber-optic cable in cities international: country code - 880; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-4 fiber-optic submarine cable system that provides links to Europe, the Middle East and Asia; satellite earth stations - 6; international radiotelephone communications and landline service to neighboring countries (2007) |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 15, FM 13, shortwave 2 (2006) |
Television broadcast stations |
15 (1999) |
Internet country code |
.bd |
Internet hosts |
376 (2007) |
Internet users |
450,000 (2006) |
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Airports |
16 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 15 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 5 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007) |
Pipelines |
gas 2,604 km (2006) |
Railways |
total: 2,768 km broad gauge: 946 km 1.676-m gauge narrow gauge: 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 239,226 km paved: 22,726 km unpaved: 216,500 km (2003) |
Waterways |
8,370 km note: includes up to 3,060 km main cargo routes; network reduced to 5,200 km in dry season (2006) |
Merchant marine |
total: 41 ships (1000 GRT or over) 328,530 GRT/468,509 DWT by type: bulk carrier 3, cargo 27, container 6, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 4 foreign-owned: 1 (China 1) registered in other countries: 9 (Comoros 1, Honduras 1, Malta 3, Panama 1, Singapore 2, St Vincent and The Grenadines 1) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Chittagong, Mongla Port |
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