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Subject: radio stations
Category: Reference, Education and News > General Reference
Asked by: ying-ga
List Price: $10.00
Posted: 02 Aug 2002 11:16 PDT
Expires: 01 Sep 2002 11:16 PDT
Question ID: 48662
How many radio stations are there in each of the following
regionsSouth Africa (entire country), Africa
(entire continent), Asia, North America, South America, and Europe ?

Request for Question Clarification by secret901-ga on 02 Aug 2002 11:25 PDT
Would you prefer to add up the numbers yourself as mwalcoff suggested
or have somebody add them up for you as an answer?
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Subject: Re: radio stations
Answered By: scriptor-ga on 02 Aug 2002 16:13 PDT
 
Dear ying,

Here are the figures you requested:

Africa (including the Comores, Maldives, Mauritius, Mayotte, Sao Tome
and Principie, and the Seychelles, but without South Africa): 1122
active radio stations.

South Africa: 362 active radio stations.

Asia (including British Indian Ocean Territory and the Philippines):
5426 active radio stations.

North America (including the Bermudas and St. Pierre et Miquelon):
10,929 active radio stations.

South America (including the Falklands): 5052 active radio stations.

Europe (including Cyprus, Faroe Islands, and Greenland): 17,316 active
radio stations.

All numbers include several repeater stations.

Source:
CIA - The World Factbook - Radio broadcast stations, by the Central
Intelligence Agency of the USA, 2001
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/radio_broadcast_stations.html

Hope this is what you were looking for!
Regards,
Scriptor
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Subject: Re: radio stations
From: mwalcoff-ga on 02 Aug 2002 11:19 PDT
 
South Africa has 362 radio stations, according to the CIA
(http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/). You can add up all
the countries you want from that Web page. Use this URL:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/radio_broadcast_stations.html.

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