Spain - Communications
Geography - People - Economy - Government - Communications - Transportation - Military - Transnational IssuesSpain is located Southwestern Europe, bordering the Bay of Biscay, Mediterranean Sea, North Atlantic Ocean, and Pyrenees Mountains, southwest of France. The climate is temperate; clear, hot summers in interior, more moderate and cloudy along coast; cloudy, cold winters in interior, partly cloudy and cool along coast. The terrain is large, flat to dissected plateau surrounded by rugged hills; Pyrenees in north.
Telephones
Telephones - main lines in use : 18.583 million (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular : 48.813 million (2007)
Telephone system
This entry includes a brief general assessment of the system with details on the domestic and international components. The following terms and abbreviations are used throughout the entryTelephone system - general assessment : well developed, modern facilities; fixed-line teledensity is about 45 per 100 persons
Telephone system - domestic : combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity is nearly 170 telephones per 100 persons
Telephone system - international : country code - 34; submarine cables provide connectivity to Europe, Middle East, Asia, and US; satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean), NA Eutelsat; tropospheric scatter to adjacent countries
Radio broadcast stations
This entry includes the total number of AM, FM, and shortwave broadcast stations.Radio broadcast stations : AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)
Radios
Radios : 13.1 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations
Television broadcast stations : 224 (plus 2,105 repeaters; includes 11 television broadcast stations and 88 repeaters in the Canary Islands) (1995)
Televisions
Televisions : 16.2 million (1997)
Internet country code
This entry includes the two-letter codes maintained by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 list and used by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) to establish country-coded top-level domains (ccTLDs).Internet country code : .es
Internet hosts
This entry lists the number of Internet hosts available within a country. An Internet host is a computer connected directly to the Internet; normally an Internet Service Provider's (ISP) computer is a host. Internet users may use either a hard-wired terminal, at an institution with a mainframe computer connected directly to the Internet, or may connect remotely by way of a modem via telephone line, cable, or satellite to the Internet Service Provider's host computer. The number of hosts is one indicator of the extent of Internet connectivity.Internet hosts : 3.264 million (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) : 56 (2000)
Internet users
This entry gives the number of users within a country that access the Internet. Statistics vary from country to country and may include users who access the Internet at least several times a week to those who access it only once within a period of several months.Internet users : 19.69 million (2007)
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