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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	7.36 million tons/km		[108th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	46,364		[146th of 164]
Aircraft departures	700		[145th of 155]
Airports	28		[124th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Highways > Paved	798 km		[91st of 113]
Highways > Total	10,100 km		[73rd of 118]
Motor vehicles	4 motor vehicles per 100 p		[119th of 134]
Ports and harbors	none
Railways	0 km		[43rd of 86]
Railways > Total	0 km		[165th of 220]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	25 %		[46th of 163]
Roads, total network > km	14,565 km		[60th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	3,803 km		[42nd of 81]
Roadways > Total	18,550 km		[43rd of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	14,747 km		[21st of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international Libya claims about 25,000 sq km in a currently dormant dispute; much of Benin-Niger boundary, including tripoint with Nigeria, remains undemarcated, and ICJ ad hoc judges have been selected to rule on disputed Niger and Mekrou River islands; Lake Chad Commission continues to urge signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over the lake region, which remains the site of armed clashes among local populations and militias
Vehicle abundance	0.2 per square km		[129th of 141]
Waterways	300 km		[61st of 165]
Waterways > A note the Niger River is navigable from Niamey to Gaya on the Benin frontier from mid-December through March

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