Gabon Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 970 km 1.437-meter standard gauge under construction; 338 km are completed

Highways: 7,393 km total, 300 km paved, 3,493 km gravel and improved, 3,600 km unimproved

Inland waterways: approximately 1,600 km perennially navigable

Pipelines: crude oil, 270 km

Ports: 2 major (Owendo and Port-Gentil), 3 minor

Civil air: 12 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 79 total, 73 usable; 9 with permanent-surface runways; 2 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 21 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: adequate system of open wire, radio-relay, tropospheric scatter links and radiocommunication stations;

13,800 telephones (1.2 per 100 popl.); 6 AM, 6 FM, 8 TV stations; 2 Atlantic Ocean satellite stations

NOTE: The information regarding Gabon 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 Gabon 1986 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Gabon 1986 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.