South Africa Communications - 1986

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Railroads: 36,499 km total (includes Namibia); 35,793 km 1.067 -meter gauge, of which 6,830 km are multiple track, 16,271 km electrified; 706 km single track

Highways: 229,690 km total, 80,796 km paved, 148,894 km crushed stone gravel, or improved earth

Pipelines: 931 km crude oil; 1,748 km refined products; 322 km natural gas

Ports: 7 major (Durban, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha Bay, East London, and Mosselbaai)

Civil air: 76 major transport aircraft

Airfields: 922 total, 829 usable, 112 with permanent-surface runways; 3 with runways over 3,659 m, 10 with runways 2,440-3,659 m, 207 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: the system is the best developed, most modern, and highest capacity in Africa and consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines, coaxial cables, radio-relay links, and radiocommunication stations; key centers are Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, 3.47 million telephones (13.4 per 100 popl.); 14 AM, 286 FM, 67 main TV stations with 450 relay transmitters, 1 submarine cable; 1 satellite station with 1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean antennas

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