Nepal:
Communications & Transportation


Telephones - main lines in use	595,800 (2006)
Telephones - mobile cellular	1.042 million (2006)
Telephone system	general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communication service and mobile cellular telephone network domestic: NA international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications; microwave landline to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations	AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (2000)
Television broadcast stations	1 (plus 9 repeaters) (1998)
Internet country code	.np
Internet hosts	18,733 (2007)
Internet users	249,400 (2006)

Airports	47 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways	total: 10 over 3,047 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 1 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways	total: 37 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 914 to 1,523 m: 6 under 914 m: 30 (2007)
Railways	total: 59 km narrow gauge: 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2006)
Roadways	total: 17,380 km paved: 9,886 km unpaved: 7,494 km (2004)