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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	38.76 million tons/km		[74th of 153]
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Aircraft departures	43,600		[47th of 155]
DEFINITION: Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	14		[31st of 139]
DEFINITION: Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m	2		[84th of 117]
DEFINITION: Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	1		[94th of 99]
DEFINITION: Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
DEFINITION: About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies. The following is a list of countries of the world and the side of the road the inhabitants drive on. Most of the people driving on the left side of the road use right-hand-drive vehicles and vice-versa.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Highways > Paved	55,408 km		[22nd of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Total	55,408 km		[29th of 118]
DEFINITION: total length of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Highways > Unpaved	0 km		[55th of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Motor vehicles	399 motor vehicles per 100 p		[23rd of 134]
DEFINITION: Motor vehicles per 1,000 people
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > All types gas 7,020 km; oil 547 km; refined products 94 km (2004)
DEFINITION: The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ports and harbors Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem
DEFINITION: The major ports and harbors selected on the basis of overall importance to each country. This is determined by evaluating a number of factors (e.g., dollar value of goods handled, gross tonnage, facilities, and military significance).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Rail usage statistics > Distance travelled by rail per inhabitant in km/year Kilometres/year	700		[14th of 38]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail usage statistics > Passenger-km of rail transport, in billion/year > Billion passenger-kilometres	6.63		[28th of 31]
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns	50
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international Liechtenstein's royal family claims restitution for 1,600 sq km of land in the Czech Republic confiscated in 1918; individual Sudeten Germans seek restitution for property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II; Austria has minor dispute with Czech Republic over the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant
DEFINITION: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: Speed limit
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	43.09 %		[75th of 153]
DEFINITION: Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Vehicle abundance	48.33 per square km		[16th of 141]
DEFINITION: Vehicles per populated land area Units: Vehicles/Populated Land Area (in km2) Units: Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Waterways > A note (the Labe (Elbe) is the principal river) (2000)
DEFINITION: The individual names of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water.
SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations > participating countries > Code	8		[37th of 44]
DEFINITION:
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003

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