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World's top 20 nations with telephone connections
Last updated on: May 21, 2013 12:55 IST
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Photographs: A mother carrying her child in a phone booth.
From being an inevitable part of the telecommunication services, landlines are becoming outdated.
With the advent of cheaper mobile phones, the popularity of landphones started declining.
Today, China tops in the total number of main telephone lines.
China
Rank: 1
Number of main telephones: 285.11 million
Take a look at the countries with the highest number of telephone lines according to Indexmundi...
(Total number of main telephone lines in use as of January 1, 2012)
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Image: An aerial view of the Manhattan skyline as seen from Lower Manhattan in New York.
Photographs: Adrees Latif/Reuters
United States
Rank: 2
Number of main telephones: 151 million
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Image: A house decorated with Christmas lights and figurines is lit up in Freising, about 30 km (18.6 miles) north of Munich.
Photographs: Michaela Rehle/Reuters
Germany
Rank: 3
Number of main telephones: 45.6 million
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Image: Moscow, Russia.
Photographs: Viktor Korotayev/Reuters
Russia
Rank: 4
Number of main telephones: 44.95 million
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Image: Brazilian National Congress in Brasilia.
Photographs: Ricardo Moraes/Reuters
Brazil
Rank: 5
Number of main telephones: 43.02 million
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Image: Japan's Mt Fuji, covered with snow, is seen through Shinjuku skyscrapers in Tokyo.
Photographs: Kimimasa Mayama/Reuters
Japan
Rank: 6
Number of main telephones: 40.41 million
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Image: French climber Alain Robert, a rock climber who has become famous for climbing known buildings worldwide, climbs the 215m (705 feet) high, 50 floors Bakrie Tower building in Jakarta.
Photographs: Supri/Reuters
Indonesia
Rank: 7
Number of main telephones: 37.96 million
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Image: Christmas holiday lights hang from trees to illuminate Champs Elysees in Paris as rush hour traffic fills the avenue leading up to the Arc de Triomphe.
Photographs: Charles Platiau/Reuters
France
Rank: 8
Number of main telephones: 36.15 million
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Image: A horse-cart passes in front of the Queen Victoria Memorial in Kolkata.
Photographs: Jayanta Shaw/Reuters
India
Rank: 9
Number of main telephones: 35.09 million
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Image: Workers sit in gondolas as they perform tests on the new cable car link across the River Thames in London.
Photographs: Toby Melville/Reuters
United Kingdom
Rank: 10
Number of main telephones: 33.32 million
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Image: Part of Gangnam area is seen down the Han River in Seoul.
Photographs: Lee Jae Won/Reuters
South Korea
Rank: 11
Number of main telephones: 28.5 million
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Image: A man counts notes in Tehran.
Photographs: Reuters
Iran
Rank: 12
Number of main telephones: 26.84 million
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Image: Tourists pass a Louis Vuitton shop closed for refurbishment, its facade covered with a faux suitcase, in Rome.
Photographs: Chris Helgren/Reuters
Italy
Rank: 13
Number of main telephones: 21.60 million
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Image: A Spanish flag flutters in the wind in front of the dome of Bank of Spain headquarters in central Madrid.
Photographs: Sergio Perez/Reuters
Spain
Rank: 14
Number of main telephones: 19.90 million
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Image: Pedestrians walk past the Torre Latinoamericana illuminated by LED lights, as part of an artistic intervention, in downtown Mexico City.
Photographs: Tomas Bravo/Reuters
Mexico
Rank: 15
Number of main telephones: 19.89 million
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Image: People go shopping in a mall in downtown Toronto.
Photographs: Mark Blinch/Reuters
Canada
Rank: 16
Number of main telephones: 16.43 million
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Image: People visit a giant replica of Lemuel Gulliver built in a park in central Taiwan's city of Taichung.
Photographs: Ralph Jennings/Reuters
Taiwan
Rank: 17
Number of main telephones: 16.43 million
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Image: A vendor sells T-shirts.
Photographs: Reuters
Vietnam
Rank: 18
Number of main telephones: 16.40 million
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Image: A view of Istanbul's financial district.
Photographs: Murad Sezer/Reuters
Turkey
Rank: 19
Number of main telephones: 16.20 million
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Image: A Jewish Menorah Center in Dnipropetrovsk.
Photographs: Gleb Garanich/Reuters
Ukraine
Rank: 20
Number of main telephones: 12.94 million
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