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Middle East > Iraq > Transportation

IRAQI TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Air transport, passengers carried 31,500 Time series [152nd of 164]
Airports 110 Time series [55th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right Right side
Heliports 17 Time series [13th of 99]
Highways > Paved 38,399 km Time series [24th of 113]
Highways > Total 45,550 km Time series [34th of 118]
Motor vehicles 50 motor vehicles per 100 p [80th of 134]
Pipelines
gas 2,250 km; liquid petroleum gas 918 km; oil 5,509 km; refined products 1,637 km
Ports and harbors
Umm Qasr, Khawr az Zubayr, and Al Basrah have limited functionality
Ports and terminals
Al Basrah, Khawr az Zubayr, Umm Qasr
Railways > Standard gauge 2,272 km Time series [32nd of 64]
Railways > Total 2,272 km Time series [68th of 220]
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km 1,682 million ton-km Time series [44th of 84]
Roads, total network > km 45,550 km Time series [63rd of 172]
Roadways > Paved 37,851 km Time series [21st of 81]
Roadways > Total 44,900 km Time series [28th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved 7,049 km Time series [32nd of 79]
Vehicle abundance 2.54 per square km [84th of 141]
Waterways 5,279 km Time series [12th of 165]
Waterways > A note
Shatt al Arab is usually navigable by maritime traffic for about 130 km; channel has been dredged to 3 m and is in use; Tigris and Euphrates Rivers have navigable sections for shallow-draft boats; Shatt al Basrah canal was navigable by shallow-draft craft before closing in 1991 because of the Gulf war

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; 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; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Iraq, Republic of Iraq, Al Jumhuriyah al Iraqiyah, Al Iraq

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