Aircraft departures
5,900
782,000
DEFINITION:
Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 112nd.
Ranked 5th. 132 times more than Belarus
Air transport, freight > million tons per km
1.16 million tons/km
7,722.13 million tons/km
DEFINITION:
Air freight is the volume of freight, express, and diplomatic bags carried on each flight stage (operation of an aircraft from takeoff to its next landing), measured in metric tons times kilometers traveled.
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 124th in 2005.
Ranked 4th in 2005. 6656 times more than Belarus
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
6
62
DEFINITION:
Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 52nd.
Ranked 9th. 9 times more than Belarus
Airports > With paved runways > Over 3047 m
2
13
DEFINITION:
Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 64th.
Ranked 12th. 6 times more than Belarus
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
5
2
DEFINITION:
Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 47th. 150% more than Germany
Ranked 70th.
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m
11
31
DEFINITION:
Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
Ranked 65th.
Ranked 30th. 182% more than Belarus
Driving side of the road > Left or right
Right side
Right side
DEFINITION:
About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies . The following is a list of countries of the world and the side of the road the inhabitants drive on. Most of the people driving on the left side of the road use right-hand-drive vehicles and vice-versa.
SOURCE:
World standards on users.pandora.be
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
1997 boundary treaty with Ukraine remains unratified over unresolved financial claims, preventing demarcation and diminishing border security; boundaries with Latvia and Lithuania remain undemarcated despite European Union financial support
none
DEFINITION:
Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Pipelines > All types
gas 5,223 km; oil 2,443 km; refined products 1,686 km (2004)
condensate 325 km; gas 25,293 km; oil 3,540 km; refined products 3,827 km (2004)
DEFINITION:
The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 22 August 2006
Pipelines > Total length
9,352 km
32,985 km
DEFINITION:
Total length of all pipelines
SOURCE:
CIA World Factbook , 22 August 2006
Ranked 29th.
Ranked 10th. 3 times more than Belarus
Ports and harbors
Mazyr
Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Luebeck, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart
DEFINITION:
The major ports and harbors selected on the basis of overall importance to each country. This is determined by evaluating a number of factors (e.g., dollar value of goods handled, gross tonnage, facilities, and military significance).
SOURCE:
All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail usage statistics > Distance travelled by rail per inhabitant in km/year Kilometres/year
1,260
890
DEFINITION:
SOURCE:
Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Ranked 3rd. 42% more than Germany
Ranked 9th.
Rail usage statistics > Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers > Billion tonne-kilometres
43.56
88.02
DEFINITION:
SOURCE:
Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Ranked 14th.
Ranked 10th. 102% more than Belarus
Rail usage statistics > Passenger-km of rail transport, in billion/year > Billion passenger-kilometres
13.57
72.57
SOURCE:
Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Ranked 18th.
Ranked 6th. 4 times more than Belarus
Travel services > % of commercial service exports
13.03 %
19.62 %
DEFINITION:
Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited).
SOURCE:
World Development Indicators database
Ranked 119th in 2005.
Ranked 108th in 2005. 51% more than Belarus
Vehicle abundance
6.78 per square km
124.34 per square km
DEFINITION:
Vehicles per populated land areaLand Area (in km2)Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data.
SOURCE:
World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001
Ranked 63rd.
Ranked 4th. 17 times more than Belarus
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations > participating countries > Code
28
1
DEFINITION:
SOURCE:
Wikipedia: World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
Ranked 18th. 27 times more than Germany
Ranked 44th.
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