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Europe > France > Transportation

FRENCH TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air transport, passengers carried 52,477,180 Time series [6th of 164]
Aircraft departures 785,700 [4th of 155]
Airports 476 Time series [14th of 247]
Cars 469 per 1,000 people [8th of 18]
Container port traffic 3,839,739 TEU Time series [20th of 63]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Right side
Heliports 3 Time series [46th of 99]
Highways > Paved 894,000 km Time series [2nd of 113]
Highways > Total 894,000 km Time series [4th of 118]
Pipelines
gas 14,665 km; oil 3,032 km; refined products 4,947 km
Ports and terminals
Bordeaux, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Strasbourg
Railways > Standard gauge 29,203 km Time series [3rd of 64]
Railways > Total 29,370 km Time series [8th of 220]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km 197,000 million ton-km Time series [5th of 52]
Roads, passengers carried > million passenger-km 781,000 million passenger-km Time series [2nd of 33]
Roads, total network > km 951,220 km Time series [5th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 951,500 km Time series [2nd of 81]
Roadways > Total 951,500 km Time series [5th of 85]
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns 50
Vehicle abundance 60 per square km [13th 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 Bank, World Development Indicators 2002 (CD ROM); World standards on users.pandora.be; Wikipedia: Speed limit ; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: France, French Republic, Republique Francaise

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