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| IRAQI TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Air transport, passengers carried
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31,500
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[152nd of 164]
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Airports
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110 |
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[55th of 247]
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Driving side of the road > Left or right
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Right side |
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Heliports
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17 |
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[13th of 99]
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Highways > Paved
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38,399 km |
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[24th of 113]
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Highways > Total
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45,550 km |
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[34th of 118]
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Motor vehicles
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50 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[80th of 134]
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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 |
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Railways > Standard gauge
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2,272 km |
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[32nd of 64]
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Railways > Total
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2,272 km |
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[68th of 220]
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Railways, goods transported > million ton-km
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1,682 million ton-km
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[44th of 84]
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Roads, total network > km
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45,550 km
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[63rd of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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37,851 km |
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[21st of 81]
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Roadways > Total
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44,900 km |
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[28th of 85]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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7,049 km |
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[32nd of 79]
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Vehicle abundance
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2.54 per square km |
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[84th of 141]
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Waterways
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5,279 km |
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[12th of 165]
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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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