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Europe > Germany > Transportation

GERMAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 782,000 [5th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 71 [8th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 2 [70th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 31 [30th of 137]
Cars 508 per 1,000 people [2nd of 18]
Highways > Paved 230,735 km [10th of 171]
Highways > Total 230,735 km [14th of 181]
Ports and harbors
Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Luebeck, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart
Roads, total network > km 656,074 km ... [7th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 231,581 km [13th of 205]
Roadways > Total 231,581 km [21st of 222]
Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns 50
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
none
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 19.62 % ... [108th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 36.07 % ... [24th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 124.34 per square km [4th of 141]
Waterways 7,467 km [18th of 106]
Waterways > A note
major rivers include the Rhine and Elbe; Kiel Canal is an important connection between the Baltic Sea and North Sea (1999)
Waterways > Note
Rhine River carries most goods; Main-Danube Canal links North Sea and Black Sea (2005)
World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations > participating countries > Code 1 [44th of 44]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2002 (CD ROM); World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wikipedia: Speed limit ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; Wikipedia: World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Germany, Federal Republic of Germany, Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Deutschland, west germany

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