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Air transport, freight > million tons per km
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15.82 million tons/km
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[89th of 153]
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Aircraft departures
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8,400 |
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[99th of 155]
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DEFINITION: Aircraft departures are the number of domestic and international take-offs of air carriers registered in the country. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
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Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
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16 |
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[26th of 139]
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DEFINITION: Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 |
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Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m
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3 |
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[61st of 117]
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DEFINITION: Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 |
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Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
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22 |
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[13th of 99]
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DEFINITION: Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 |
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Driving side of the road > Left or right
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Right side |
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DEFINITION: About a quarter of the world drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies. The following is a list of countries of the world and the side of the road the inhabitants drive on. Most of the people driving on the left side of the road use right-hand-drive vehicles and vice-versa. |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 |
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Highways > Paved
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77,020 km |
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[13th of 113]
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DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system |
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SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be |
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Highways > Total
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81,331 km |
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[18th of 118]
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DEFINITION: total length of the highway system |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Highways > Unpaved
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4,311 km |
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[41st of 113]
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DEFINITION: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Merchant marine > Ships by type
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roll on/roll off 1 |
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DEFINITION: Merchant marine may be defined as all ships engaged in the carriage of goods; or all commercial vessels (as opposed to all non-military ships), which excludes tugs, fishing vessels, offshore oil rigs, etc.; or a grouping of merchant ships by nationality o |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Merchant marine > Total > Dwt
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49,223 Dwt |
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[113rd of 157]
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DEFINITION: Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship |
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
Pipelines > All types
condensate 18 km; gas 10,370 km; oil 10,158 km; refined products 1,187 km (2004) |
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DEFINITION: The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Pipelines > Total length
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21,733 km
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[14th of 120]
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DEFINITION: Total length of all pipelines
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
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Ports and harbors
Aqtau (Shevchenko), Atyrau (Gur'yev), Oskemen (Ust-Kamenogorsk), Pavlodar, Semey (Semipalatinsk) |
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DEFINITION: The major ports and harbors selected on the basis of overall importance to each country. This is determined by evaluating a number of factors (e.g., dollar value of goods handled, gross tonnage, facilities, and military significance). |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
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Rail usage statistics > Distance travelled by rail per inhabitant in km/year Kilometres/year
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500
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[23rd of 38]
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DEFINITION:
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SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008 |
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Rail usage statistics > Passenger-km of rail transport, in billion/year > Billion passenger-kilometres
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12.13 |
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[19th of 31]
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
Kazakhstan and China have resolved their border dispute and are working to demarcate their borders to control population migration, illegal activities, and trade; delimitation of boundary with Russia is almost complete - delimitations with Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are complete with demarcations underway - delimitation with Kyrgyzstan is largely complete; creation of a seabed boundary with Turkmenistan in the Caspian Sea is under discussion; equidistant seabed treaties have been signed with Azerbaijan and Russia in the Caspian Sea, but no resolution has been made on dividing the water column among any of the littoral states |
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DEFINITION: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country. |
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SOURCE: Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country |
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Travel services > % of commercial service exports
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34.72 %
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[88th of 153]
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DEFINITION: Travel services (% of commercial service exports) covers goods and services acquired from an economy by travelers in that economy for their own use during visits of less than one year for business or personal purposes. Travel services include the goods and services consumed by travelers, such as lodging and meals and transport (within the economy visited). |
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SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001 |
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Vehicle abundance
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1.11 per square km |
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[100th of 141]
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DEFINITION: Vehicles per populated land area
Units: Vehicles/Populated Land Area (in km2)
Units: Air pollution is generally greatest in densely populated areas. To take this into account, we used the Gridded Population of the World dataset available from CIESIN and calculated the total land area in each country inhabited with a population density of greater than 5 persons per sq. km. We then utilized this land area as the denominator for the vehicles data. |
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SOURCE: World Development Indicators database |
Waterways > A note
on the Syr Darya (Syrdariya) and Ertis (Irtysh) rivers |
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DEFINITION: The individual names of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water. |
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SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001 |
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