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Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Applied sciences	2,426		[9th of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Arts and recreation	733		[10th of 72]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Literature	247		[28th of 77]
Book production, titles by the Universal Decimal Classification > Religion, theology	4,504		[1st of 73]
Cinema attendance	26,000,000		[20th of 78]
DVD region	2		[144th of 171]
Households with television > %	76.58 %		[75th of 160]
Mobile phone subscribers	7,222,538		[46th of 198]
Newspapers and periodicals > Number of titles > Daily	112		[12th of 106]
Number of PCs	7,347		[19th of 169]
Radio broadcast stations	AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5
Radio receivers	17,000,000		[23rd of 188]
Radios	17,000,000		[23rd of 221]
Telephone system > International country code - 98; submarine fiber-optic cable to UAE with access to Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG); Trans-Asia-Europe (TAE) fiber-optic line runs from Azerbaijan through the northern portion of Iran to Turkmenistan with expansion to Georgia and Azerbaijan; HF radio and microwave radio relay to Turkey, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Syria, Kuwait, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan; satellite earth stations - 13 (9 Intelsat and 4 Inmarsat)
Telephones > Main lines in use	23,835,000		[8th of 174]
Telephones > Mobile cellular	29,770,000		[25th of 186]
Television broadcast stations	28		[17th of 89]
Television receivers	4,610,000		[32nd of 185]
Televisions	4,610,000		[33rd of 215]
Website defacements	28		[48th of 129]

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