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Africa > Guinea > Transportation

GUINEAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air transport, freight > million tons per km 1.4 million tons/km Time series [137th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried 58,500 Time series [151st of 164]
Aircraft departures 600 [148th of 155]
Airports 16 Time series [145th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Right side
Highways > Paved 5,033 km Time series [51st of 113]
Highways > Total 30,500 km Time series [43rd of 118]
Motor vehicles 5 motor vehicles per 100 p [117th of 134]
Ports and harbors Boke, Conakry, Kamsar Time series
Ports and terminals Conakry, Kamsar Time series
Rail lines > total route-km 1,115 km Time series [70th of 111]
Railways > Standard gauge 175 km Time series [53rd of 64]
Railways > Total 837 km Time series [96th of 220]
Roads, total network > km 44,348 km Time series [46th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 4,342 km Time series [53rd of 81]
Roadways > Total 44,348 km Time series [35th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved 40,006 km Time series [19th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
domestic fighting among disparate rebel groups in Guinea, domestic fighting among disparate rebel groups, warlords, and youth gangs in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have created insurgencies, street violence, looting, arms trafficking, ethnic conflicts skirmishes, deaths, and refugees in border areas; in 2003, Guinea and Sierra Leone established a boundary commission to resolve a dispute over the town of Yenga
Vehicle abundance 0.15 per square km [132nd of 141]
Waterways 1,300 km Time series [39th of 165]

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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: Guinea, Republic of Guinea, Republique de Guinee, Guinee

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