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South America > Guyana > Transportation

Air transport, freight > million tons per km 1.6 million tons/km Time series [131st of 153]
Aircraft departures 300 [152nd of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 3 [77th of 139]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 1 [85th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 8 [70th of 137]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Left side
Highways > Paved 590 km Time series [96th of 113]
Highways > Total 7,970 km Time series [78th of 118]
Highways > Unpaved 7,380 km Time series [60th of 113]
Merchant marine > Ships by type cargo 2 Time series
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt 14,193 Dwt Time series [131st of 157]
Merchant marine > Total > GRT 12,516 GRT Time series [135th of 157]
Motor vehicles 41 motor vehicles per 100 p [87th of 134]
Ports and harbors
Bartica, Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam, Parika
Railways > A note
all dedicated to ore transport (2001 est.)
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
all of the area west of the Essequibo (river) is claimed by Venezuela preventing any discussion of a maritime boundary; Guyana has expressed its intention to join Barbados in asserting claims before UNCLOS that Trinidad and Tobago's maritime boundary with Venezuela extends into their waters; Suriname claims a triangle of land between the New and Kutari/Koetari rivers in a historic dispute over the headwaters of the Courantyne; Guyana seeks UNCLOS arbitration to resolve the long-standing dispute with Suriname over the axis of the territorial sea boundary in potentially oil-rich waters
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 23.86 % Time series [102nd of 153]
Waterways > A note
Berbice, Demerara, and Essequibo rivers are navigable by oceangoing vessels for 150 km, 100 km, and 80 km, respectively

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; World standards on users.pandora.be; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Guyana, Co-operative Republic of Guyana

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