Highways:
total: 20,041 km
paved: bituminous, concrete pavement 17,095 km
unpaved: crushed stone, gravel 2,371 km; graded earth 575 km
Pipelines: petroleum products 615 km; natural gas 97 km
Ports: Chi-lung (Keelung), Hua-lien, Kao-hsiung, Su-ao, T'ai-chung
Merchant marine:
total: 198 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 5,635,682 GRT/8,652,111
DWT
ships by type: bulk 55, cargo 30, chemical tanker 1, combination bulk
2, combination ore/oil 1, container 78, oil tanker 17, passenger-cargo
1, refrigerated cargo 12, roll-on/roll-off cargo 1
Airports:
total: 41
with paved runways over 3,047 m: 8
with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 11
with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 6
with paved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 6
with paved runways under 914 m: 8
with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m: 2
@Taiwan:Communications
Telephone system: 7,800,000 telephones; best developed system in Asia
outside of Japan
local: NA
intercity: extensive microwave radio relay links on east and west
coasts
international: 2 INTELSAT (1 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean) earth
stations; submarine cable links to Japan (Okinawa), Philippines, Guam,
Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Middle East, and Western
Europe
Radio:
broadcast stations: AM 91, FM 23, shortwave 0
radios: 8.62 million
Television:
broadcast stations: 15 (repeaters 13)
televisions: 6.386 million (color 5,680,000, monochrome 706,000)
@Taiwan:Defense Forces