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| MOTSWANA -BATSWANA TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Air transport, freight > million tons per km
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0.31 million tons/km
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[130th of 153]
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Air transport, passengers carried
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229,987
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[125th of 164]
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Aircraft departures
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7,100 |
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[105th of 155]
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Airports
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85 |
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[70th of 247]
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Driving side of the road > Left or right
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Left side |
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Highways > Paved
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5,619 km |
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[47th of 113]
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Highways > Total
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10,217 km |
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[72nd of 118]
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Motor vehicles
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57 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[76th of 134]
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Ports and harbors
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none |
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Rail lines > total route-km
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888 km
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[79th of 111]
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Railways > Total
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888 km |
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[91st of 220]
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Railways, goods transported > million ton-km
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842 million ton-km
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[60th of 84]
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Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km
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171 million passenger-km
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[58th of 83]
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Roads, total network > km
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24,455 km
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[49th of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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8,410 km |
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[27th of 81]
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Roadways > Total
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25,798 km |
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[27th of 85]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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17,388 km |
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[15th of 79]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > international established a commission with Namibia to resolve small residual disputes along the Caprivi Strip, including the Situngu marshlands along the Linyanti River; downstream Botswana residents protest Namibia's planned construction of the Okavango hydroelectric dam at Popavalle (Popa Falls); Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe boundary convergence is not clearly defined or delimited |
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Vehicle abundance
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2.43 per square km |
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[87th of 141]
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Waterways
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0 km |
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[65th of 165]
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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; World standards on users.pandora.be; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; 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:
Botswana, Republic of Botswana
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