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@Telephones - main lines in use

Afghanistan:
29,000 (1996)

note: there were 21,000 main lines in service in Kabul in 1998

Albania:
87,000 (1997)

Algeria:
2.3 million (1998)

American Samoa:
13,000 (1997)

Andorra:
32,946 (December 1998)

Angola:
62,000 (1997)

Anguilla:
5,000 (1997)

Antarctica:
0

note: information for US bases only (2001)

Antigua and Barbuda:
28,000 (1996)

Argentina:
7.5 million (1998)

Armenia:
568,000 (1997)

Aruba:
33,000 (1997)

Australia:
9.58 million (1998)

Austria:
4 million (3,600,000 analog main lines plus 400,000 ISDN or
Integrated Services Digital Network connections) (1999)

Azerbaijan:
663,000 (1997)

Bahamas, The:
96,000 (1997)

Bahrain:
152,000 (1997)

Bangladesh:
500,000 (2000)

Barbados:
108,000 (1997)

Belarus:
2.313 million (1997)

Belgium:
4.769 million (1997)

Belize:
31,000 (1997)

Benin:
36,000 (1997)

Bermuda:
52,000 (1997)

Bhutan:
6,000 (1997)

Bolivia:
327,600 (1996)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
303,000 (1997)

Botswana:
86,000 (1997)

Brazil:
17.039 million (1997)

British Indian Ocean Territory:
NA

British Virgin Islands:
10,000 (1996)

Brunei:
79,000 (1996)

Bulgaria:
3.255 million (2000)

Burkina Faso:
36,000 (1997)

Burma:
250,000 (2000)

Burundi:
16,000 (1997)

Cambodia:
21,800 (mid-1998)

Cameroon:
75,000 (1997)

Canada:
18.5 million (1999)

Cape Verde:
45,644 (2000)

Cayman Islands:
19,000 (1995)

Central African Republic:
10,000 (1997)

Chad:
7,000 (1997)

Chile:
2.603 million (1998)

China:
135 million (2000)

Christmas Island:
NA

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
NA (1999)

Colombia:
5,433,565 (December 1997)

Comoros:
6,000 (1997)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
21,000 (1997)

Congo, Republic of the:
22,000 (1997)

Cook Islands:
5,000 (1997)

Costa Rica:
450,000 (1998)

note: 584,000 installed in 1997, but only about 450,000 were in use
1998

Cote d'Ivoire:
219,283 (31 December 1999)

Croatia:
1.488 million (1997)

Cuba:
473,031 (2000)

Cyprus:
Greek Cypriot area: 405,000 (1998); Turkish Cypriot area:
83,162 (1998)

Czech Republic:
3.869 million (2000)

Denmark:
4.785 million (1997)

Djibouti:
8,000 (1997)

Dominica