There are some 3,660 km (2,274 mi) of railway track, roughly a third of which is electrified. There are some 17,700 km (10,998 mi) of roads, including almost 200 km (124 mi) of motorways. In the mid-1990s there were around 994,046 private cars and 171,125 lorries and buses in Slovakia. The national airline is Slov-Air, with the chief international airport at Bratislava.

Communications

Slovakia has 22 daily newspapers, of which the most important dailies are Novy Cas and Pravda. Total circulation in the early 1990s was around 1,291,000. Slovak Television is the major television broadcaster, and there are also private networks. In the early 1990s Slovakia had some 1,305,440 telephones, 1.1 million radios, and 1.6 million televisions.