|
|
|
       
| |
|
|
Iran:
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other pages in this profile of Iran:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
| |
Telephones - main lines in use |
21.981 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
13.659 million (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: currently being modernized and expanded with the goal of not only improving the efficiency and increasing the volume of the urban service but also bringing telephone service to several thousand villages, not presently connected domestic: the addition of new fiber cables and modern switching and exchange systems installed by Iran's state-owned telecom company have improved and expanded the main line network greatly; main line availability has more than doubled to 19 million lines since 1995; additionally, mobile service has increased dramatically serving some 8.5 million subscribers in 2005 international: country code - 98; submarine fiber-optic cable to UAE with access to Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion to Georgia and Azerbaijan; HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; satellite earth stations - 9 Intelsat and 4 Inmarsat (2006) |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5 (1998) |
Television broadcast stations |
28 (plus 450 repeaters) (1997) |
Internet country code |
.ir |
Internet hosts |
6,111 (2007) |
Internet users |
18 million (2006) |
| |
Airports |
331 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 129 over 3,047 m: 40 2,438 to 3,047 m: 28 1,524 to 2,437 m: 24 914 to 1,523 m: 32 under 914 m: 5 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 202 over 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 10 914 to 1,523 m: 145 under 914 m: 46 (2007) |
Heliports |
14 (2007) |
Pipelines |
condensate 7 km; condensate/gas 397 km; gas 17,099 km; liquid petroleum gas 570 km; oil 8,521 km; refined products 7,808 km (2006) |
Railways |
total: 8,367 km broad gauge: 94 km 1.676-m gauge standard gauge: 8,273 km 1.435-m gauge (146 km electrified) (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 179,388 km paved: 120,782 km (includes 878 km of expressways) unpaved: 58,606 km (2003) |
Waterways |
850 km (on Karun River; additional service on Lake Urmia) (2006) |
Merchant marine |
total: 131 ships (1000 GRT or over) 4,721,202 GRT/8,309,580 DWT by type: bulk carrier 35, cargo 45, chemical tanker 4, container 9, liquefied gas 1, passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 29, roll on/roll off 4 foreign-owned: 1 (UAE 1) registered in other countries: 33 (Bolivia 1, Cyprus 2, Malta 24, Panama 4, St Kitts and Nevis 1, St Vincent and The Grenadines 1) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Assaluyeh, Bushehr |
|
Copyright 2008 World Sites Atlas (sitesatlas.com) |