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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	2.48 million tons/km		[110th of 153]
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Airports > With paved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	5		[62nd of 139]
DEFINITION: Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m	3		[65th of 117]
DEFINITION: Number of airports with paved runways (concrete or asphalt surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m	1		[89th of 99]
DEFINITION: Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m	13		[55th of 137]
DEFINITION: Total number of airports with useable unpaved runways (grass, dirt, sand, or gravel surfaces), categorised according to the length of the longest runway
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
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.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Highways > Paved	9,664 km		[38th of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the paved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Total	21,716 km		[51st of 118]
DEFINITION: total length of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Highways > Unpaved	12,052 km		[42nd of 113]
DEFINITION: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Ships by type	cargo 1
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		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Total > Dwt	3,110 Dwt		[146th of 157]
DEFINITION: Dwt=Deadweight tonnage, a measure of the capacity of a cargo ship		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Merchant marine > Total > GRT	2,370 GRT		[149th of 157]
DEFINITION: GRT=Gross Register Tonnage		View time series
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > All types refined products 540 km (2004)
DEFINITION: The lengths and types of pipelines for transporting products like natural gas, crude oil, or petroleum products"
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines > Total length	540 km		[97th of 120]
DEFINITION: Total length of all pipelines
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Ports and harbors	none
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).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 22 August 2006
Railways	0 km		[54th of 86]
DEFINITION: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
SOURCE: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
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
DEFINITION: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, December 2003
Travel services > % of commercial service exports	82.03 %		[10th of 153]
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).		View time series
SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Vehicle abundance	0.1 per square km		[136th of 141]
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.
SOURCE: World Development Indicators database
Waterways > A note primarily Mekong and tributaries; 2,897 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m
DEFINITION: The individual names of navigable rivers, canals, and other inland bodies of water.
SOURCE: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

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