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Africa > Nigeria > Transportation

NIGERIAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 8,400 [98th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 6 [39th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 3 [58th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 13 [54th of 137]
Highways > Paved 60,068 km [30th of 171]
Highways > Total 194,394 km [19th of 181]
Motor vehicles 1 motor vehicles per 100 p [131st of 134]
Ports and harbors
Calabar, Lagos, Onne, Port Harcourt, Sapele, Warri
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 174 million passenger-km ... [69th of 83]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 15 % ... [54th of 163]
Roads, total network > km 193,200 km ... [13th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 60,068 km [44th of 205]
Roadways > Total 194,394 km [26th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 134,326 km [18th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
ICJ ruled in 2002 on the entire Cameroon-Nigeria land and maritime boundary but the parties formed a Joint Border Commission to resolve differences bilaterally and have commenced with demarcation in less-contested sections of the boundary, starting in Lake Chad in the north; Nigeria initially rejected cession of the Bakasi Peninsula; the ICJ ruled on an equidistance settlement of Cameroon-Equatorial Guinea-Nigeria maritime boundary in the Gulf of Guinea, but imprecisely defined coordinates in the ICJ decision, the unresolved Bakasi allocation, and a sovereignty dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon over an island at the mouth of the Ntem River all contribute to the delay in implementation; several villages along the Okpara River are in dispute with Benin; Lake Chad Commission continues to urge signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over lake region, which remains the site of armed clashes among local populations and militias
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 0.44 % ... [134th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 15.15 % ... [113rd of 153]
Vehicle abundance 2.69 per square km [83rd of 141]
Waterways 8,600 km [15th of 106]
Waterways > A note
consisting of the Niger and Benue rivers and smaller rivers and creeks

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001; CIA World Factbook, December 2003

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Nigeria, Federal Republic of Nigeria

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