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Asia > Sri Lanka > Transportation

SRI LANKAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 11,300 [90th of 155]
Motor vehicles 25 motor vehicles per 100 p [95th of 134]
Ports and harbors
Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Trincomalee
Ports and terminals Colombo, Galle
Rail lines > total route-km 1,447 km ... [47th of 111]
Railways > Broad gauge
1,449 km 1.676-m gauge (2005)
Railways > Total 1,449 km [81st of 134]
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km 138 million ton-km ... [80th of 84]
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 4,682 million passenger-km ... [32nd of 83]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km 30 million ton-km ... [52nd of 52]
Roads, passengers carried > million passenger-km 21,067 million passenger-km ... [14th of 33]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 81 % ... [30th of 163]
Roads, total network > km 97,286 km ... [24th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 78,802 km [31st of 205]
Roadways > Total 97,287 km [42nd of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 18,485 km [70th of 175]
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 28.25 % ... [95th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 15.33 % ... [110th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 9.59 per square km [53rd of 141]
Waterways 160 km [98th of 106]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Development Indicators database; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Sri Lanka, Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, ceylon

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