Railroads: 4,223 km 1.435-meter standard gauge; Norwegian State Railways (NSB) operates 4,219 km (2,450 km electrified and 96 km double track); 4 km other

Highways: 79,540 km total; 18,600 km concrete, bituminous, stone block; 19,980 km bituminous treated; 40,960 km gravel, crushed stone, and earth

Inland waterways: 1,577 km along west coast; 1.5-2.4 m draft vessels maximum

Pipelines: refined products, 53 km

Ports: Oslo, Bergen, Drammen, Fredrikstad, Kristiansand, Stavanger, Trondheim, and numerous minor ports

Merchant marine: 429 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 11,249,061 GRT/19,215,146 DWT; includes 9 passenger, 20 short-sea passenger, 67 cargo, 3 passenger-cargo, 13 refrigerated cargo, 4 container, 32 roll-on/roll-off cargo, 4 vehicle carrier, 1 railcar carrier, 82 petroleum, oils, and lubricants (POL) tanker, 54 chemical tanker, 51 liquefied gas, 19 combination ore/oil, 68 bulk, 2 combination bulk

Civil air: 76 major transport aircraft

Airports: 104 total, 104 usable; 64 with permanent-surface runways; 12 with runways 2,440-3,659 m; 17 with runways 1,220-2,439 m

Telecommunications: high-quality domestic and international telephone, telegraph, and telex services; 3,102,000 telephones; stations--8 AM, 46 (1,080 relays) FM, 45 (1,695 relays) TV; 4 coaxial submarine cables; 3 communications satellite ground stations operating in the EUTELSAT, MARISAT, and domestic systems

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