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Maldives

TRANSPORTATION AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Ports: Male, Gan; merchant fleet of some twelve vessels.

Airports: Two with permanent-surface runways: Male and Gan; Air Maldives is national airline.

Telecommunications: (1994) Minimal domestic and international facilities; 2,800 telephones; two amplitude modulation (AM) stations, one frequency modulation (FM) station; one television station; one Indian Ocean International Telecommunications Satellite Corporation (Intelsat) earth station.

Data as of August 1994