Ports: Aqtau (Shevchenko), Atyrau (Gur'yev), Oskemen
(Ust-Kamenogorsk), Pavlodar, Semey (Semipalatinsk)
Airports:
total: 352
with paved runways over 3 047 m: 7
with paved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 23
with paved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 11
with paved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 5
with paved runways under 914 m: 9
with unpaved runways over 3 047 m: 9
with unpaved runways 2 438 to 3 047 m: 8
with unpaved runways 1 524 to 2 437 m: 25
with unpaved runways 914 to 1 523 m: 65
with unpaved runways under 914 m: 190 (1994 est.)
Communications ———————
Telephones: 2.2 million
Telephone system: service is poor domestic: landline and microwave radio relay international: international traffic with other former Soviet republics and China carried by landline and microwave radio relay and with other countries by satellite and through 8 international telecommunications circuits at the Moscow international gateway switch; satellite earth stations - 1 Intelsat and a new satellite earth station established at Almaty of unknown type
Radio broadcast stations: AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA
Radios: 4.088 million (with multiple speakers for program
diffusion 6.082 million)
Television broadcast stations: NA; Orbita (TV receive only) earth
station
Televisions: 4.75 million
Defense ———-