Netherlands Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads- Netherlands Railways (NS) operates 2,867 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; 3,033 km total trackage; 1,810 km electrified, 1,800 km double track; 166 km privately owned

Highways: 108,360 km total, 92,525 km paved (including 2,185 km of limited access, divided highways); 15,835 km gravel, crushed stone

Inland waterways: 6,340 km, of which 35% is usable by craft of 900 metric ton capacity or larger

Pipelines-418 km crude oil; 965 km refined products; 10,230 km natural gas

Ports: 8 major, 10 minor

Civil air: 98 major transport air craft

Airfields: 29 total, 28 usable; 19 with permanent-surface runways; 12 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 4 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: highly developed, well maintained, and integrated; extensive system of multiconductor cables, supplemented by radio-relay links; 8.27 million telephones (57.5 per 100popl.); 7 AM, 38 FM, 29 TV stations; 9 submarine cables; 1 satellite station with 2 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean antennas

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