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| CONGOLESE TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Air transport, freight > million tons per km
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7.4 million tons/km
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[103rd of 153]
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Air transport, passengers carried
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95,200
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[134th of 164]
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Airports
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237 |
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[29th of 247]
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Driving side of the road > Left or right
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Right side |
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Heliports
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1 |
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[52nd of 99]
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Highways > Total
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157,000 km |
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[16th of 118]
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Motor vehicles
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19 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[98th of 134]
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Pipelines
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gas 62 km; oil 71 km |
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Ports and harbors
Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba, Goma, Kalemie, Kindu, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka |
Ports and terminals
Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba, Goma, Kalemie, Kindu, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka |
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Railways > Total
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5,138 km |
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[33rd of 220]
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Railways, goods transported > million ton-km
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444 million ton-km
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[76th of 84]
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Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km
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140 million passenger-km
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[71st of 83]
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Roads, total network > km
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153,497 km
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[15th of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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2,794 km |
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[66th of 81]
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Roadways > Total
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153,497 km |
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[19th of 85]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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150,703 km |
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[10th of 79]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of a civil war, tribal conflict, and rebel gang fighting that has drawn in neighboring states of Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda; in the Great Lakes region and Sudan, heads of the Great Lakes states and UN pledge to end conflict, but unchecked localized violence continues unabated; the location of the boundary in the broad Congo River with the Republic of the Congo is indefinite except in the Pool Malebo/Stanley Pool area |
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Vehicle abundance
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0.59 per square km |
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[113rd of 141]
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Waterways
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15,000 km |
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[6th of 165]
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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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:
Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republique Democratique du Congo, congo (drc), congo (kinshasa), congo dr, congo-kinshasa, dem. rep. of the congo, zaire, Congo, Democratic Republic, Congo, Dem. Republic, Congo (Kinsasha), Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic of, Congo, Dem. Rep. of the, Congo, The Democratic Republic of the, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dem Rep. of the Congo, DRC Congo, DR Congo, Congo, Dem. Rep.
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