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Taiwan
T'ai-wan
COMMUNICATIONS
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Telephones - main lines in use:
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12.49 million (September 2000) |
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Telephones - mobile cellular:
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16 million (September 2000) |
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Telephone system:
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general assessment: provides telecommunications service for every business and private need
domestic: thoroughly modern; completely digitalized international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Pacific Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); submarine cables to Japan (Okinawa), Philippines, Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Australia, Middle East, and Western Europe (1999) |
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Radio broadcast stations:
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AM 218, FM 333, shortwave 50 (1999) |
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Radios:
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16 million (1994) |
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Television broadcast stations:
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29 (plus two repeaters) (1997) |
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Televisions:
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8.8 million (1998) |
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Internet country code:
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.tw |
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Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
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8 (2000) |
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Internet users:
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11.6 million (2001) |
TRANSPORTATION
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Railways:
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total: 1,108 km
narrow gauge: 1,108 km 1.067-m gauge (519 km electrified) note: there also are 1,255 km of 1.067-m gauge routes belonging to the Taiwan Sugar Corporation and to the Taiwan Forestry Bureau used to haul products and limited numbers of passengers (2002) |
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Highways:
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total: 34,901 km
paved: 31,271 km (including 538 km of expressways) unpaved: 3,630 km (1998 est.) |
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Waterways:
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NA |
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Pipelines:
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petroleum products 3,400 km; natural gas 1,800 km (1999) |
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Ports and harbors:
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Chi-lung (Keelung), Hua-lien, Kao-hsiung, Su-ao, T'ai-chung |
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Merchant marine:
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total: 142 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 3,973,958 GRT/6,306,361 DWT
note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: Hong Kong 3, Japan 1 (2002 est.) ships by type: bulk 41, cargo 22, chemical tanker 2, combination bulk 3, container 45, petroleum tanker 18, refrigerated cargo 9, roll on/roll off 2 |
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Airports:
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39 (2002) |
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Airports - with paved runways:
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total: 37
over 3,047 m: 8 2,438 to 3,047 m: 8 914 to 1,523 m: 8 under 914 m: 2 (2002) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 11 |
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Airports - with unpaved runways:
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total: 2
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 under 914 m: 1 (2002) |
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Heliports:
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3 (2002) |
MILITARY
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Military branches:
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Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, Coast Guard Administration, Armed Forces Reserve Command, Combined Service Forces Command |
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Military manpower - military age:
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19 years of age (2003 est.) |
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Military manpower - availability:
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males age 15-49: 6,583,604 (2003 est.) |
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Military manpower - fit for military service:
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males age 15-49: 5,019,268 (2003 est.) |
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Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
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males: 189,967 (2003 est.) |
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Military expenditures - dollar figure:
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$7.574 billion (FY02) |
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Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
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2.7% (FY02) |
TRANSNATIONAL ISSUES
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Disputes - international:
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involved in complex dispute over the Spratly Islands with China, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam, and possibly Brunei; claimants in November 2002 signed the "Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea", a mechanism to ease tension but which fell short of a legally binding "code of conduct"; Paracel Islands occupied by China, but claimed by Taiwan and Vietnam; claims Japanese-administered Senkaku-shoto (Senkaku Islands/Diaoyu Tai), as does China |
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Illicit drugs:
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regional transit point for heroin and methamphetamine; major problem with domestic consumption of methamphetamine and heroin |