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| SALVADORAN TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Air transport, freight > million tons per km
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20.8 million tons/km
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[87th of 153]
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Air transport, passengers carried
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2,540,564
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[56th of 164]
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Aircraft departures
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44,200 |
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[45th of 155]
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Airports
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65 |
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[79th 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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[78th of 99]
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Highways > Paved
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1,986 km |
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[70th of 113]
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Highways > Total
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10,029 km |
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[74th of 118]
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Motor vehicles
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57 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[75th of 134]
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Ports and harbors Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco, La Libertad, La Union, Puerto El Triunfo |
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Ports and terminals
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Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco |
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Rail lines > total route-km
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283 km
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[106th of 111]
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Railways > Total
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562 km |
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[4th of 220]
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Roads, paved > % of total roads
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19.8 %
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[98th of 163]
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Roads, total network > km
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10,029 km
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[112nd of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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2,827 km |
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[17th of 81]
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Roadways > Total
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10,886 km |
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[24th of 85]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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8,059 km |
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[17th of 79]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > international in 1992, the ICJ ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, and the OAS is assisting with a technical resolution of undemarcated bolsones; in 2003, the ICJ rejected El Salvador's request to revise its decision on one part of the bolsones; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca with consideration of Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not mentioned by the ICJ, off Honduras in the Gulf de Fonseca |
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Vehicle abundance
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17.49 per square km |
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[37th of 141]
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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; 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:
El Salvador, Republic of El Salvador, Republica de El Salvador
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