Saudi Arabia Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 886 km 1.435-meter standard gauge

Highways: 67,000 km total; 28,000 km bituminous, 39,000 km gravel and improved earth

Pipelines: 6,400 km crude oil; 150 km refined products; 2,200 km natural gas, includes 1,600 km of natural gas liquids

Ports: 7 major (Jiddah [Jeddah], Ad Dammam, Ras Tanura, Jlztin, Al Jubayl, Yanbu' al Bafir, Yanbu' a? SinS'Tyah), 17 minor

Civil air: 181 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 202 total, 170 usable; 59 with permanent-surface runways; 10 with runways over 3,659 m, 25 with runways 2,4 40-3,659 m, 96 with runways 1,2202,439 m

Telecommunications: good system exists, major expansion program completed with extensive microwave and coaxial cable systems; 960.000 telephones (14.0 per 100

popl.); 21 AM, 2 FM, 63 TV stations, 2 Atlan tic and 2 Indian Ocean satellite stations. 1 Arab satellite control station; radio-relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, and Sudan, coaxial cable to Kuwait; submarine cable to Djibouti under construction

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