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North America > Canada > Transportation

CANADIAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 291,800 [13th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 245 [2nd of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 67 [5th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 347 [3rd of 137]
Cars 459 per 1,000 people [9th of 18]
Highways > Paved 497,306 km [4th of 171]
Highways > Total 1,408,800 km [3rd of 181]
Motor vehicles 563 motor vehicles per 100 p [8th of 134]
Ports and harbors
Becancour (Quebec), Churchill, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, New Westminster, Prince Rupert, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick), St. John's (Newfoundland), Sept Isles, Sydney, Trois-Rivieres, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Windsor
Roads, total network > km 1,408,900 km ... [4th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 415,600 km [9th of 205]
Roadways > Total 1,042,300 km [6th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 626,700 km [4th of 175]
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns 50
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance, Beaufort Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; uncontested dispute with Denmark over Hans Island sovereignty in the Kennedy Channel between Ellesmere Island and Greenland
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 26.04 % ... [96th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 28.58 % ... [47th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 34.91 per square km [24th of 141]
Waterways 631 km [76th of 106]
Waterways > Note
Saint Lawrence Seaway of 3,769 km, including the Saint Lawrence River of 3,058 km, shared with United States (2003)

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002 (CD ROM); United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Speed limit ; 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: Canada, Canada & Newfoundland

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