Railroads: 886 km 1.435-meter standard gauge

Highways: 74,000 km total; 35,000 km bituminous, 39,000 km gravel and improved earth

Pipelines: 6,400 km crude oil; 150 km refined products; 2,200 km natural gas, includes 1,600 km of natural gas liquids

Ports: Jiddah, Ad Dammam, Ras Tanura, Jizan, Al Jubayl, Yanbu al Bahr

Merchant marine: 99 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 2,134,356 GRT/3,747,384 DWT; includes 2 passenger, 5 short-sea passenger, 2 passenger-cargo, 15 cargo, 12 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 3 container, 5 refrigerated cargo, 4 livestock carrier, 35 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 8 chemical tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 1 combination ore/oil, 1 specialized tanker, 4 bulk, 1 combination bulk

Civil air: 191 major transport aircraft available

Airports: 200 total, 178 usable; 64 with permanent-surface runways; 13 with runways over 3,659 m; 31 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 98 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: good system with extensive microwave and coaxial cable systems; 1,624,000 telephones; stations--21 AM, 16 FM, 97 TV; radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, YAR, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait; submarine cable to Djibouti and Egypt; 3 Atlantic and 2 Indian Ocean INTELSAT stations; 1 ARABSAT satellite station; 1 INMARSAT satellite station; 1 ARABSAT satellite control station

NOTE: The information regarding Saudi Arabia on this page is re-published from the 1989 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Saudi Arabia Communications 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Saudi Arabia Communications 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.