Transport in Benin
Transportation
- Railroads:
- total: 578 km (single track)
- narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge
Highways:
- total: 8,435 km
- paved:1,038 km
- unpaved: crushed stone 2,600 km; improved earth 1,530 km; unimproved earth 3,267 km
Inland waterways:
- navigable along small sections, important only locally
Ports:
Merchant marine:
Airports:
- total: 7
- with paved runways 2,438 to 3,047 m: 1
- with paved runways 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
- with unpaved runways 1,524 to 2,438 m:1
- with unpaved runways 914 to 1,523 m: 4
Telephone system:
- N/A telephones; fair system of open wire and microwave radio relay
- local: N/A
- intercity: microwave radio relay and open wire
- international: 1 Atlantic Ocean INTELSAT earth station, submarine cable
Radio:
- broadcast stations: AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 0
- radios: N/A
Television:
- broadcast stations: 2
- televisions: N/A
