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Other pages in this profile of Turkmenistan:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
495,000 (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
105,000 (2005) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: poorly developed domestic: Turkmenistan's telecommunications network remains woefully underdeveloped; Turkmentelekom, in cooperation with foreign investors, is planning to upgrade the country's telephone exchanges and install a new digital switching system international: country code - 993; linked by cable and microwave radio relay to other CIS republics and to other countries by leased connections to the Moscow international gateway switch; a new telephone link from Ashgabat to Iran has been established; a new exchange in Ashgabat switches international traffic through Turkey via Intelsat; satellite earth stations - 1 Orbita and 1 Intelsat (2006) |
Radio broadcast stations |
AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998) |
Television broadcast stations |
4 (government-owned and programmed) (2004) |
Internet country code |
.tm |
Internet hosts |
97 (2007) |
Internet users |
64,800 (2006) |
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Airports |
28 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 22 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 11 1,524 to 2,437 m: 8 914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 6 1,524 to 2,437 m: 2 under 914 m: 4 (2007) |
Heliports |
1 (2007) |
Pipelines |
gas 6,441 km; oil 1,361 km (2006) |
Railways |
total: 2,440 km broad gauge: 2,440 km 1.520-m gauge (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 24,000 km paved: 19,488 km unpaved: 4,512 km (1999) |
Waterways |
1,300 km (Amu Darya and Kara Kum canal important inland waterways) (2006) |
Merchant marine |
total: 8 ships (1000 GRT or over) 22,870 GRT/25,801 DWT by type: cargo 4, combination ore/oil 1, petroleum tanker 2, refrigerated cargo 1 (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Turkmenbasy |
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