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  Field Listing - Telephones - main lines in use


Country
Telephones - main lines in use
Afghanistan 33,100 (2002)
Albania 240,000 (2003)
Algeria 2.2 million (2003)
American Samoa 15,000 (2001)
Andorra 35,000 (2001)
Angola 85,000 (2002)
Anguilla 6,200 (2002)
Antarctica 0
note: information for US bases only (2001)
Antigua and Barbuda 38,000 (2002)
Argentina 8,009,400 (2002)
Armenia 542,800 (2002)
Aruba 37,100 (2002)
Australia 10.59 million (2002)
Austria 3.988 million (2003)
Azerbaijan 923,800 (2002)
Bahamas, The 126,600 (2002)
Bahrain 175,400 (2002)
Bangladesh 682,000 (2002)
Barbados 133,000 (2002)
Belarus 2,967,200 (2002)
Belgium 5,120,400 (2002)
Belize 31,300 (2002)
Benin 62,700 (2002)
Bermuda 56,000 (2002)
Bhutan 19,600 (2002)
Bolivia 563,900 (2002)
Bosnia and Herzegovina 902,800 (2002)
Botswana 150,000 (2002)
Brazil 38.81 million (2002)
British Indian Ocean Territory NA
British Virgin Islands 11,700 (2002)
Brunei 90,000 (2002)
Bulgaria 2,868,200 (2002)
Burkina Faso 64,300 (2002)
Burma 342,300 (2002)
Burundi 22,100 (2002)
Cambodia 35,400 (2002)
Cameroon 110,900 (2002)
Canada 19,962,100 (2002)
Cape Verde 70,200 (2002)
Cayman Islands 38,000 (2002)
Central African Republic 9,000 (2002)
Chad 11,800 (2002)
Chile 3.467 million (2002)
China 214.42 million (2002)
Christmas Island NA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands 287 (1992)
Colombia 7.766 million (2002)
Comoros 10,300 (2002)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 10,000 (2002)
Congo, Republic of the 22,000 (2002)
Cook Islands 6,200 (2002)
Costa Rica 1.132 million (2002)
Cote d'Ivoire 336,100 (2002)
Croatia 1.825 million (2002)
Cuba 574,400 (2002)
Cyprus Greek Cypriot area: 405,000 (1998); Turkish Cypriot area: 83,162 (1998)
Czech Republic 3,675,500 (2002)
Denmark 3,700,900 (2002)
Djibouti 10,100 (2002)
Dominica 23,700 (2002)
Dominican Republic 909,000 (2002)
East Timor NA
Ecuador 1,426,200 (2002)
Egypt 7.43 million (2002)
El Salvador 667,700 (2002)
Equatorial Guinea 8,800 (2002)
Eritrea 35,900 (2002)
Estonia 475,000 (2002)
Ethiopia 353,800 (2002)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) 2,400 (2002)
Faroe Islands 23,000 (2002)
Fiji 97,500 (2002)
Finland 2,725,600 (2002)
France 33,928,700 (2002)
French Guiana 51,000 (2001)
French Polynesia 52,500 (2002)
Gabon 32,100 (2002)
Gambia, The 38,400 (2002)
Gaza Strip 95,729 (total for Gaza Strip and West Bank) (1997)
Georgia 648,500 (2002)
Germany 53.72 million (2002)
Ghana 274,300 (2002)
Gibraltar 24,512 (2002)
Greece 5,412,800 (2002)
Greenland 26,000 (2001)
Grenada 33,500 (2002)
Guadeloupe 210,000 (2001)
Guam 84,134 (2001)
Guatemala 846,000 (2002)
Guernsey 55,000 (2001)
Guinea 26,000 (2002)
Guinea-Bissau 11,200 (2002)
Guyana 80,400 (2002)
Haiti 130,000 (2002)
Holy See (Vatican City) NA
Honduras 322,500 (2002)
Hong Kong 3,831,800 (2002)
Hungary 3,666,400 (2002)
Iceland 188,000 (2002)
India 41.42 million (2002)
Indonesia 7.75 million (2002)
Iran 12,200,200 (2002)
Iraq 675,000; note - an unknown number of telephone lines were damaged or destroyed during the March-April 2003 war (2003)
Ireland 1.975 million (2002)
Israel 3.1 million (2002)
Italy 27.142 million (2002)
Jamaica 444,400 (2002)
Japan 71.149 million (2002)
Jersey 73,900 (2001)
Jordan 674,500 (2002)
Kazakhstan 2,081,900 (2002)
Kenya 328,100 (2002)
Kiribati 4,500 (2002)
Korea, North 1.1 million (2001)
Korea, South 23.257 million (2002)
Kuwait 481,900 (2002)
Kyrgyzstan 394,800 (2002)
Laos 61,900 (2002)
Latvia 701,200 (2002)
Lebanon 678,800 (2002)
Lesotho 28,600 (2002)
Liberia 7,000 (2001)
Libya 660,000 (2002)
Liechtenstein 19,900 (2002)
Lithuania 935,900 (2002)
Luxembourg 355,400 (2002)
Macau 176,100 (2002)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of 560,000 (2002)
Madagascar 59,500 (2002)
Malawi 73,100 (2002)
Malaysia 4,669,900 (2002)
Maldives 28,700 (2002)
Mali 56,600 (2002)
Malta 207,300 (2002)
Man, Isle of 51,000 (1999)
Marshall Islands 4,400 (2002)
Martinique 172,000 est (2001)
Mauritania 31,500 (2002)
Mauritius 327,200 (2002)
Mayotte 10,000 (2001)
Mexico 15,958,700 (2003)
Micronesia, Federated States of 10,100 (2001)
Moldova 706,900 (2002)
Monaco 33,700 (2002)
Mongolia 128,000 (2002)
Montserrat NA
Morocco 1,127,400 (2002)
Mozambique 83,700 (2002)
Namibia 121,400 (2002)
Nauru 1,900 (2002)
Nepal 327,700 (2002)
Netherlands 10.004 million (2002)
Netherlands Antilles 81,000 (2001)
New Caledonia 52,000 (2002)
New Zealand 1.765 million (2002)
Nicaragua 171,600 (2002)
Niger 22,400 (2002)
Nigeria 702,000 (2002)
Niue 1,100 est (2002)
Norfolk Island 2,532; note: a mix of analog (2500) and digital (32) circuits (2004)
Northern Mariana Islands 21,000 (2000)
Norway 3.343 million (2002)
Oman 227,600 (2002)
Pakistan 3.655 million (2002)
Palau 6,700 (2002)
Panama 366,700 (2002)
Papua New Guinea 64,000 (2002)
Paraguay 273,200 (2002)
Peru 1,766,100 (2002)
Philippines 3,310,900 (2002)
Pitcairn Islands 1 (there are 17 telephones on one party line); (2004)
Poland 11.4 million (2002)
Portugal 4,354,600 (2002)
Puerto Rico 1,329,500 (2002)
Qatar 176,500 (2002)
Reunion 300,000 est (2001)
Romania 4,215,200 (2002)
Russia 35.5 million (2002)
Rwanda 23,200 (2002)
Saint Helena 2,200 (2002)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 23,500 (2002)
Saint Lucia 51,100 (2002)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 4,800 (2002)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 27,300 (2002)
Samoa 10,300 (2002)
San Marino 20,600 (2002)
Sao Tome and Principe 6,200 (2002)
Saudi Arabia 3,317,500 (2002)
Senegal 224,600 (2002)
Serbia and Montenegro 2.493 million (2002)
Seychelles 21,700 (2002)
Sierra Leone 24,000 (2002)
Singapore 1,896,100 (2004)
Slovakia 1,442,600 (2002)
Slovenia 1,010,200 (2002)
Solomon Islands 6,600 (2002)
Somalia 100,000 est (2002)
South Africa 4.844 million (2002)
Spain 20,595,300 (2002)
Sri Lanka 883,100 (2002)
Sudan 671,800 (2002)
Suriname 78,700 (2002)
Svalbard NA
Swaziland 40,000 (2004)
Sweden 6,579,200 (2002)
Switzerland 5.419 million (2002)
Syria 2,099,300 (2002)
Taiwan 13,099,400 (2002)
Tajikistan 237,600 (2002)
Tanzania 161,600 (2002)
Thailand 6,499,800 (2002)
Togo 51,200 (2002)
Tokelau 300 (2002)
Tonga 11,200 (2002)
Trinidad and Tobago 325,100 (2002)
Tunisia 1.148 million (2002)
Turkey 18,914,900 (2002)
Turkmenistan 374,000 (2002)
Turks and Caicos Islands 5,700 (2002)
Tuvalu 700 (2002)
Uganda 55,000 (2002)
Ukraine 10,833,300 (2002)
United Arab Emirates 1,093,700 (2002)
United Kingdom 34.898 million (2002)
United States 186,232,300 (2002)
Uruguay 946,500 (2002)
Uzbekistan 1,681,100 (2002)
Vanuatu 6,600 (2002)
Venezuela 2,841,800 (2002)
Vietnam 3,929,100 (2002)
Virgin Islands 69,400 (2002)
Wallis and Futuna 1,900 (2002)
West Bank 301,600 (total for West Bank and Gaza Strip) (2002)
Western Sahara about 2,000 (1999 est.)
World NA
Yemen 542,200 (2002)
Zambia 87,700 (2002)
Zimbabwe 287,900 (2002)

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