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Other pages in this profile of Ethiopia:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
725,000 (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
866,700 (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: inadequate telephone system; the number of fixed lines and mobile telephones in increasing from a very small base; combined fixed and mobile-cellular teledensity is only about 2 per 100 persons domestic: open-wire; microwave radio relay; radio communication in the HF, VHF, and UHF frequencies; 2 domestic satellites provide the national trunk service international: country code - 251; open-wire to Sudan and Djibouti; microwave radio relay to Kenya and Djibouti; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Pacific Ocean) |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 8, FM 0, shortwave 1 (2001) |
Television broadcast stations |
1 (plus 24 repeaters) (2001) |
Internet country code |
.et |
Internet hosts |
89 (2007) |
Internet users |
164,000 (2005) |
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Airports |
84 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 15 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 69 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 11 914 to 1,523 m: 29 under 914 m: 21 (2007) |
Railways |
total: 699 km (Ethiopian segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad) narrow gauge: 699 km 1.000-m gauge note: railway under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 36,469 km paved: 6,980 km unpaved: 29,489 km (2004) |
Merchant marine |
total: 10 ships (1000 GRT or over) 120,383 GRT/152,418 DWT by type: cargo 8, roll on/roll off 2 (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Ethiopia is landlocked and uses the port of Djibouti |
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