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Central America and the Caribbean > Cuba > Transportation

CUBAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 11,700 [88th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 6 [40th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 29 [32nd of 137]
Highways > Paved 29,820 km [43rd of 171]
Highways > Total 60,858 km [47th of 181]
Ports and harbors
Cienfuegos, Havana, Manzanillo, Mariel, Matanzas, Nuevitas, Santiago de Cuba
Railways > A note
in addition to the 4,807 km of standard-gauge track in public use, 7,162 km of track is in private use by sugar plantations; about 90% of the private use track is standard gauge and the rest is narrow gauge (2000 est.)
Railways > Note
an additional 7,742 km of track is used by sugar plantations; about 65% of this track is standard gauge; the rest is narrow gauge (2005)
Railways > Standard gauge 4,226 km 1.435-m gauge [20th of 63]
Railways > Total 4,226 km [38th of 134]
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km 731.81 million ton-km ... [48th of 84]
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 1,451.61 million passenger-km ... [39th of 83]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 49 % ... [67th of 163]
Roads, total network > km 60,856 km ... [55th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 29,820 km [59th of 205]
Roadways > Total 60,858 km [69th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 31,038 km [55th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay is leased to US and only mutual agreement or US abandonment of the area can terminate the lease
Vehicle abundance 3.26 per square km [81st of 141]
Waterways 240 km [92nd of 106]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; World Development Indicators database; 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: Cuba, Republic of Cuba, Republica de Cuba

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