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Air transport, freight > million tons per km 31.62 million tons/km Time series [76th of 153]
Aircraft departures 44,300 [43rd of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 10 [41st of 139]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 4 [54th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 26 [12th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 38 [27th of 137]
Container port traffic 311,111 TEU Time series [60th of 63]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Right side
Highways > Paved 71,656 km Time series [16th of 113]
Highways > Total 104,000 km Time series [20th of 118]
Highways > Unpaved 32,344 km Time series [24th of 113]
Merchant marine > Ships by type
bulk 9, cargo 23, chemical tanker 6, liquefied gas 10, petroleum tanker 4, roll on/roll off 12, short-sea passenger 4, specialized tanker 1, includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of convenience: United Arab Emirates 2
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt 707,251 Dwt Time series [70th of 157]
Motor vehicles 87 motor vehicles per 100 p [68th of 134]
Pipelines > All types
condensate 1,344 km; gas 85,946 km; liquid petroleum gas 2,213 km; oil 6,496 km (2004)
Pipelines > Total length 95,999 km [4th of 120]
Ports and harbors
Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Beni Saf, Dellys, Djendjene, Ghazaouet, Jijel, Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda, Tenes
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
Algeria supports the exiled Sahrawi Polisario Front and rejects Moroccan administration of Western Sahara; Algeria's border with Morocco remains an irritant to bilateral relations; each nation has accused the other of harboring militants and arms smuggling; in an attempt to improve relations afer unilaterally imposing a visa requirement on Algerians in the early 1990s, Morocco lifted the requirement in mid-2004 - a gesture not reciprocated by Algeria; Algeria remains concerned about armed bandits operating throughout the Sahel who sometimes destabilize southern Algerian towns; dormant disputes include Libyan claims of about 32,000 sq km still reflected on its maps of southeastern Algeria and the FLN's assertions of a claim to Chirac Pastures in southeastern Morocco
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 22.29 % Time series [101st of 153]
Vehicle abundance 4.2 per square km [74th of 141]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; World standards on users.pandora.be; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006 ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Al Jumhuriyah al Jaza'iriyah ad Dimuqratiyah ash Sha'biyah, Al Jaza'ir, algeria b

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