Infrastructure — Nepal
Transport, communications, and energy.
Profile updated 2026-06-02
⚡ Infrastructure at a glance
Transport, communications, and energy. Key figure for Nepal: 47
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Transportation
- Airports - total
47
- Airports with Paved Runways
11
- Roadways- total
6,738 Miles 10,844 Kilometers
- Roadways- paved
3,077 Miles 4,952 Kilometers
- Ports and Terminals
none
Communications
- Telephones
820,500
- Cell Phones
1,157,000
- Internet Users
337,100
- Internet Country Code
.np
- Internet Hosts
43,928
- Broadcast Media
- state operates 2 TV stations as well as national and regional radio stations
- roughly 30 independent TV channels are registered with only about half in regular operation
- nearly 400 FM radio stations are licensed with roughly 300 operational
- Telephone System
- general assessment: poor telephone and telegraph service; fair radiotelephone communi
- cation service and mobile-cellular telephone network domestic: mobile-cellular telephone subscribership base is increasing with roughly 90% of the popula
- tion living in areas covered by mobile carriers international: country code - 977; radiotelephone communications; microwave and fiber landlines to India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Indian Ocean)
Energy
- Electricity Consumption- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,243,000,000
- Electricity Imports- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
213,000,000
- Electricity Production- Kilowatt Hours (kWh)
2,600,000,000
- Oil Consumption- Barrels Per Day (bbl/day)
18,430