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Southeast Asia > Burma > Transportation

BURMESE TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air transport, freight > million tons per km 2.72 million tons/km Time series [108th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried 1,503,624 Time series [75th of 164]
Aircraft departures 9,700 [94th of 155]
Airports 86 Time series [69th of 247]
Heliports 4 Time series [38th of 99]
Motor vehicles 6 motor vehicles per 100 p [114th of 134]
Pipelines gas 2,790 km; oil 558 km Time series
Ports and harbors
Bhamo, Chauk, Mandalay, Moulmein, Myitkyina, Pathein, Rangoon, Sittwe, Tavoy
Ports and terminals Moulmein, Rangoon, Sittwe Time series
Railways > Total 3,955 km Time series [42nd of 220]
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km 449.18 million ton-km Time series [68th of 84]
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 3,938.7 million passenger-km Time series [35th of 83]
Roads, total network > km 27,966 km Time series [77th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 3,200 km Time series [44th of 81]
Roadways > Total 27,000 km Time series [39th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved 23,800 km Time series [19th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
despite continuing border committee talks, significant differences remain with Thailand over boundary alignment and the handling of ethnic rebels, refugees, and illegal cross-border activities; groups in Burma and Thailand express concern over China's construction of 13 hydroelectric dams on the Salween River in Yunnan Province; India seeks cooperation from Burma to keep out Indian Nagaland insurgents
Vehicle abundance 0.12 per square km [133rd of 141]
Waterways 12,800 km Time series [4th of 165]
Waterways > A note
3,200 km navigable by large commercial vessels

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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; 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; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Burma, Union of Burma, Pyidaungzu Myanma Naingngandaw (translated by the US Government as Union of Myanma and by the Burmese as Union of Myanmar), Myanma Naingngandaw, burma (myanmar), myanmar (burma), myanmar

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