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Other pages in this profile of Kuwait:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
510,300 (2005) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
2.536 million (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: the quality of service is excellent domestic: new telephone exchanges provide a large capacity for new subscribers; trunk traffic is carried by microwave radio relay, coaxial cable, and open-wire and fiber-optic cable; a cellular telephone system operates throughout Kuwait, and the country is well supplied with pay telephones international: country code - 965; linked to international submarine cable Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); linked to Bahrain, Qatar, UAE via the Fiber-Optic Gulf (FOG) cable; coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Saudi Arabia; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean, 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Inmarsat (Atlantic Ocean), and 2 Arabsat |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998) |
Television broadcast stations |
13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997) |
Internet country code |
.kw |
Internet hosts |
2,013 (2007) |
Internet users |
816,700 (2006) |
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Airports |
7 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 4 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 under 914 m: 2 (2007) |
Heliports |
4 (2007) |
Pipelines |
gas 269 km; oil 540 km; refined products 57 km (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 5,749 km paved: 4,887 km unpaved: 862 km (2004) |
Merchant marine |
total: 38 ships (1000 GRT or over) 2,195,831 GRT/3,566,308 DWT by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 1, container 6, liquefied gas 5, livestock carrier 3, petroleum tanker 21 registered in other countries: 28 (Bahrain 3, Comoros 1, Liberia 1, Libya 1, Panama 1, Qatar 7, Saudi Arabia 6, UAE 8) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi |
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