Infrastructure — Faroe Islands
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Faroe Islands: 1
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Transportation
- Airports - total
1
- Airports with Paved Runways
1
- Roadways- total
288 Miles 463 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
Torshavn, Klaksvik, Tvoroyri, Runavik, Fuglafjordhur
Communications
- Telephones
20,900
- Cell Phones
50,000
- Internet Users
34,000
- Internet Country Code
.fo
- Internet Hosts
8,936
- Broadcast Media
- 1 publicly owned TV station
- the Faroese telecommunications company distributes local and international channels through its digital terrestrial network
- publicly owned radio station supplemented by 2 privately owned stations broadcasting over multiple frequencies
- Telephone System
- general assessment: good international communications;
- good domestic facilities domestic: conversion to digital system completed in 1998; both NMT (analog) and GSM (
- digital) mobile telephone systems are installed international: country code - 298; satellite earth stations - 1 Orion; 1 fiber-optic submarine cable to the Shetland Islands, linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark and Iceland; fiber-optic submarine cable connection to Canada-Europe cable
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
264,400,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
275,800,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
4,871
