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Madagascar TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Highways: About 4,000 kilometers of
40,000-kilometer
road system asphalted in 1994.
Railroads: In 1994 1,095 kilometers 1,000-meter
gauge
track in two separate systems: Antananarivo to Toamasina
and
Fianarantsoa to Manakara.
Ports: Fifteen major ports of which Toamasina,
Mahajanga, and Antsiranana most important.
Airports: About 105 of total airports usable; of
these
thirty had permanent-surface runways in 1994.
Telecommunications: Telephone service sparse;
most
telephones located in Antananarivo. Two satellite ground
stations
provide excellent international links via International
Telecommunications Satellite Corporation's (Intelsat)
Indian
Ocean satellite and Symphonie ground station with European
telecommunications satellite. Seventeen government-owned
amplitude modulation (AM) stations, three frequency
modulation
(FM) stations.
Data as of August 1994
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