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Other pages in this profile of Ukraine:
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
Geography, People, Government, Economy, Military & Transnational Issues.
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Telephones - main lines in use |
12.341 million (2006) |
Telephones - mobile cellular |
49.076 million (2006) |
Telephone system |
general assessment: Ukraine's telecommunication development plan, running through 2005, emphasizes improving domestic trunk lines, international connections, and the mobile cellular system domestic: at independence in December 1991, Ukraine inherited a telephone system that was antiquated, inefficient, and in disrepair; more than 3.5 million applications for telephones could not be satisfied; telephone density is rising slowly and the domestic trunk system is being improved; the mobile cellular telephone system is expanding at a high rate international: country code - 380; 2 new domestic trunk lines are a part of the fiber-optic Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) system and 3 Ukrainian links have been installed in the fiber-optic Trans-European Lines (TEL) project that connects 18 countries; additional international service is provided by the Italy-Turkey-Ukraine-Russia (ITUR) fiber-optic submarine cable and by earth stations in the Intelsat, Inmarsat, and Intersputnik satellite systems |
Radio broadcast stations |
524 (station types NA) (2006) |
Television broadcast stations |
647 (2006) |
Internet country code |
.ua |
Internet hosts |
234,349 (2007) |
Internet users |
5.545 million (2006) |
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Airports |
437 (2007) |
Airports - with paved runways |
total: 193 over 3,047 m: 13 2,438 to 3,047 m: 53 1,524 to 2,437 m: 27 914 to 1,523 m: 5 under 914 m: 95 (2007) |
Airports - with unpaved runways |
total: 244 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 11 914 to 1,523 m: 13 under 914 m: 217 (2007) |
Heliports |
10 (2007) |
Pipelines |
gas 19,951 km; oil 4,514 km; refined products 4,211 km (2006) |
Railways |
total: 22,473 km broad gauge: 22,473 km 1.524-m gauge (9,250 km electrified) (2006) |
Roadways |
total: 169,477 km paved: 164,732 km (includes 15 km of expressways) unpaved: 4,745 km (2004) |
Waterways |
2,253 km (most on Dnieper River) (2006) |
Merchant marine |
total: 193 ships (1000 GRT or over) 763,293 GRT/899,859 DWT by type: bulk carrier 6, cargo 145, container 3, passenger 6, passenger/cargo 4, petroleum tanker 9, refrigerated cargo 11, roll on/roll off 7, specialized tanker 2 registered in other countries: 194 (Belize 10, Cambodia 27, Comoros 13, Cyprus 6, Dominica 3, Georgia 24, Liberia 24, Malta 28, Moldova 3, Mongolia 3, Panama 8, Russia 10, Sierra Leone 8, Slovakia 10, St Kitts and Nevis 5, St Vincent and The Grenadines 12, unknown 3) (2007) |
Ports and terminals |
Feodosiya, Kerch, Kherson, Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Reni, Yuzhnyy |
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