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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	2.48 million tons/km		[110th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	293,442		[117th of 164]
Airports	42		[104th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Highways > Paved	9,664 km		[38th of 113]
Highways > Total	21,716 km		[51st of 118]
Pipelines	refined products 540 km
Ports and harbors	none
Railways	0 km		[54th of 86]
Railways > Total	0 km		[161st of 220]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km	30 million ton-km		[48th of 52]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	14.41 %		[62nd of 163]
Roads, total network > km	31,210 km		[52nd of 172]
Roadways > Paved	4,010 km		[41st of 81]
Roadways > Total	29,811 km		[37th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	25,801 km		[17th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international demarcation of boundaries with Cambodia, Thailand, and Vietnam is largely complete, but with Thailand several areas including Mekong River islets remain in dispute; ongoing disputes with Thailand and Vietnam over squatters; concern among Mekong Commission members that China's construction of dams on the Mekong River will affect water levels
Vehicle abundance	0.1 per square km		[136th of 141]
Waterways	4,600 km		[8th of 165]
Waterways > A note primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,897 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m

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