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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	1.6 million tons/km		[131st of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	47,800		[143rd of 164]
Aircraft departures	300		[152nd of 155]
Airports	93		[64th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Left side
Highways > Paved	590 km		[96th of 113]
Highways > Total	7,970 km		[78th of 118]
Motor vehicles	41 motor vehicles per 100 p		[87th of 134]
Ports and harbors Bartica, Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam, Parika
Ports and terminals	Georgetown
Rail lines > total route-km	187 km		[109th of 111]
Railways > Total	187 km		[1st of 220]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	7.4 %		[130th of 163]
Roads, total network > km	7,970 km		[116th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	590 km		[33rd of 81]
Roadways > Total	7,970 km		[27th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	7,380 km		[20th of 79]
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
Waterways	1,077 km		[44th of 165]
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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