Bahrain Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: none

Highways: 225 km bituminous surfaced; undetermined kilometers of natural surface tracks; 25 km bridge-causeway to Saudi Arabia is under construction with completion scheduled for January 1986

Ports: 1 major (Mina’Sulman), 1 minor (Mina’al Manamah), 1 petroleum, oil, and lubricant terminal (Sitrah)

Pipelines: crude oil, 56 km; refined products, 16 km; natural gas 32 km

Civil air: 3 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 3 total, 2 usable; 2 with permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways over 3,659 m; 1 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: excellent international telecommunications; adequate domestic services; 98,000 telephones (25.4 per 100 popl.); 2 AM, 1 FM, and 2 TV stations; 1 Atlantic Ocean, 1 Indian Ocean, and 1 Arab satellite station; tropospheric scatter and microwave to Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia submarine cable to Qatar and United Arab Emirates

NOTE: The information regarding Bahrain on this page is re-published from the 1986 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bahrain 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bahrain 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.