Guadeloupe Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: privately owned, narrow-gauge plantation lines

Guadeloupe {continued)

Highways: 1,954 km total; 1,600 krn paved, 340 km gravel and earth

Ports: 1 major (Polnte-a-Pitre), 3 minor

Civil air: 2 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 9 total, 9 usable, 8 w ith permanent-surface runways; 1 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 1 with runways 1,220-2,439

Telecommunications: domestic facilities inadequate; 57,300 telephones (17.4 per 100 popl.); interisland radio-relay to Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, and Martinique; 2 AM, 3 FM, 9 TV stations; 1 INTELSAT satellite station

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