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Kuwait:
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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 |
Definition - World rank and map 510,300 (2005) |
Telephones - main lines in use per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 196.5 (2005) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
Definition - World rank and map 2.774 million (2007) |
Telephones - mobile cellular subscribers per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 1,068.2 (2007) |
Telephone system |
Definition 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 - 6 (3 Intelsat - 1 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean, 1 Inmarsat - Atlantic Ocean, and 2 Arabsat) |
Radio broadcast stations |
Definition AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998) |
Television broadcast stations |
Definition 13 (plus several satellite channels) (1997) |
Internet country code |
Definition .kw |
Internet hosts |
Definition - World rank and map 2,013 (2007) |
Internet hosts per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 0.8 (2007) |
Internet users |
Definition - World rank and map 816,700 (2006) |
Internet users per 1,000 people |
Definition - World rank and map 314.5 (2006) |
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Airports |
Definition - World rank and map 7 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
Definition 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 |
Definition total: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 under 914 m: 2 (2007) |
Heliports |
Definition 4 (2007) |
Pipelines |
Definition gas 269 km; oil 540 km; refined products 57 km (2007) |
Roadways |
Definition - World rank and map total: 5,749 km paved: 4,887 km unpaved: 862 km (2004) |
Merchant marine |
Definition - World rank and map total: 40 ships (1000 GRT or over) 2,460,319 GRT/4,037,282 DWT by type: bulk carrier 2, cargo 1, carrier 3, container 7, liquefied gas 4, petroleum tanker 23 registered in other countries: 31 (Bahrain 3, Comoros 1, Libya 1, Panama 2, Qatar 7, Saudi Arabia 6, St Kitts and Nevis 1, UAE 10) (2008) |
Ports and terminals |
Definition Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi |
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