Railroads: 12,520 km total; Swedish State Railways (SJ)--11,180 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 6,960 km electrified and 1,152 km double track; 182 km 0.891-meter gauge; 117 km rail ferry service; privately owned railways--511 km 1.435-meter standard gauge, 332 km electrified; 371 km 0.891-meter gauge electrified

Highways: 97,400 km (51,899 km paved, 20,659 km gravel, 24,842 km unimproved earth)

Inland waterways: 2,052 km navigable for small steamers and barges

Pipelines: 84 km natural gas

Ports: Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Kalmar, Malmo, Stockholm; numerous secondary and minor ports

Merchant marine: 170 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,637,024 GRT/1,727,015 DWT; includes 1 passenger, 12 short-sea passenger, 27 cargo, 3 container, 39 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 12 vehicle carrier, 2 railcar carrier, 25 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 22 chemical tanker, 1 liquefied gas, 8 combination ore/oil, 5 specialized liquid cargo, 12 bulk, 1 combination bulk

Civil air: 65 major transports

Airports: 260 total, 257 usable; 137 with permanent-surface runways; 11 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 91 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: excellent domestic and international facilities; 8,200,000 telephones; stations--4 AM, 55 FM (320 relays), 110 TV (825 relays); 5 submarine coaxial cables; 2 communication satellite ground stations operating in the INTELSAT and EUTELSAT systems

NOTE: The information regarding Sweden 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 Sweden Communications 1989 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Sweden Communications 1989 should be addressed to the CIA.