espite an equally large number of
installed but unused main lines domestic: consists of microwave radio
relay links, open-wire lines, radiotelephone communication stations,
fixed wireless local loop installations, and a substantial mobile cellular
network; Internet connection is available in Harare and planned for all
major towns and for some of the smaller ones international: satellite
earth stations - 2 Intelsat; two international digital gateway exchanges
(in Harare and Gweru)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations),
shortwave 1 (1998)

Radios: 1.14 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 16 (1997)

Televisions: 370,000 (1997)

Internet country code: .zw

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 6 (2000)

Internet users: 30,000 (1999)

Transportation Zimbabwe

Railways: total: 3,077 km narrow gauge: 3,077 km 1.067-m gauge
(313 km electrified; 42 km double-tracked) note: includes the 318 km
Bulawaya-Beitbridge Railway Company line (2001)

Highways: total: 18,338 km paved: 8,692 km unpaved: 9,646 km (2002)

Waterways: chrome ore is transported from Harare - by way of the Mazoe
River - to the Zambezi River in Mozambique

Pipelines: petroleum products 212 km

Ports and harbors: Binga, Kariba

Airports: 454 (2001)

Airports - with paved runways: total: 17 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047
m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to 1,523 m: 8 (2001)

Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 437 1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 914 to
1,523 m: 209 under 914 m: 224 (2001)

Military Zimbabwe

Military branches: Zimbabwe National Army, Air Force of Zimbabwe,
Zimbabwe Republic Police (includes Police Support Unit, Paramilitary
Police)

Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 3,057,381 (2002 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 1,898,383
(2002 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure: $350.6 million (FY01)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 3.8% (FY01)

Transnational Issues Zimbabwe

Disputes - international: none

Illicit drugs: transit point for African cannabis and South Asian
heroin, mandrax, and methamphetamines destined for the South African
and European markets

This page was last updated on 1 January 2002

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Pacific Ocean

Introduction

Pacific Ocean

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