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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	0.31 million tons/km		[130th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	229,987		[125th of 164]
Aircraft departures	7,100		[105th of 155]
Airports	85		[70th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Left side
Highways > Paved	5,619 km		[47th of 113]
Highways > Total	10,217 km		[72nd of 118]
Motor vehicles	57 motor vehicles per 100 p		[76th of 134]
Ports and harbors	none
Rail lines > total route-km	888 km		[79th of 111]
Railways > Total	888 km		[91st of 220]
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km	842 million ton-km		[60th of 84]
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km	171 million passenger-km		[58th of 83]
Roads, total network > km	24,455 km		[49th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	8,410 km		[27th of 81]
Roadways > Total	25,798 km		[27th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	17,388 km		[15th of 79]
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
Vehicle abundance	2.43 per square km		[87th of 141]
Waterways	0 km		[65th of 165]

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