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Other pages in this profile of Kenya:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
293,400 (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
6.485 million (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: inadequate; fixed-line telephone system is small and inefficient; trunks are primarily microwave radio relay; business data commonly transferred by a very small aperture terminal (VSAT) system domestic: no recent growth in fixed-line infrastructure and the sole provider, Telkom Kenya, is slated for privatization; multiple providers in the mobile-cellular segment of the market fostering a boom in mobile-cellular telephone usage international: country code - 254; satellite earth stations - 4 Intelsat |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 24, FM 18, shortwave 6 (2001) |
Television broadcast stations |
8 (2001) |
Internet country code |
.ke |
Internet hosts |
2,120 (2007) |
Internet users |
2.77 million (2006) |
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Airports |
225 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 15 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 1 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 210 1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 914 to 1,523 m: 113 under 914 m: 85 (2007) |
Pipelines |
refined products 894 km (2006) |
Railways |
total: 2,778 km narrow gauge: 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 63,265 km (interurban roads) paved: 8,933 km unpaved: 54,332 km note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,765 km (2004) |
Waterways |
part of Lake Victoria system is within boundaries of Kenya (2006) |
Merchant marine |
total: 1 ship (1000 GRT or over) 3,737 GRT/5,558 DWT by type: petroleum tanker 1 registered in other countries: 5 (Bahamas 1, Comoros 1, St Vincent and The Grenadines 2, Tuvalu 1, unknown 1) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Mombasa |
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