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Morocco
Transportation
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Airports: 69
Airports - with paved runways: 26
Heliports: 1
Railways: total: 1,907 km. standard gauge:
1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1,003 km electrified; 540
km double-track)
Highways: total:
57,847 km ; aved: 30,254
km
(including 327 km of expressways); , unpaved:
27,593 km
Ports and Harbors:
Agadir, El Jadida, Casablanca, El Jorf Lasfar,
Kenitra, Mohammedia, Nador, Rabat, Safi, Tangier;
also Spanish-controlled Ceuta and
Melilla
Morocco
Communications
Radio broadcast
stations: AM 27, FM 25,
shortwave 6, Radios: 6.64 million
Television broadcast
stations: 35 (plus 66 repeaters), Televisions:
3.1 million
Internet country
code: .ma
Internet Service
Providers (ISPs): 8 (2000)
Internet users:
120,000 (1999)
Telephone system: general assessment: modern
system with all important capabilities; however
density is low with only 4.6 main lines available
for each 100 persons domestic: good system composed
of open-wire lines, cables, and microwave radio
relay links; Internet available but expensive;
principal switching centers are Casablanca and
Rabat; national network nearly 100% digital using
fiber-optic links; improved rural service employs
microwave radio relay
International: 7 submarine
cables; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat
(Atlantic Ocean) and 1 Arabsat; microwave radio
relay to Gibraltar, Spain, and Western Sahara;
coaxial cable and microwave radio relay to Algeria;
participant in Medarabtel; fiber-optic cable link
from Agadir to Algeria and Tunisia (1998)
Africa Travel
Association
347 Fifth Avenue,
New York, NY 10016
Sixth Cultural and Ecotourism Symposium Fez,
Morocco
December 8 through December 13, 2002
africatravelasso@aol.com
(212) 447-1926
Photo Credits: Royal Air Maroc, Boeing Aircraft
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