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| NICARAGUAN TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Aircraft departures
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500 |
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[150th of 155]
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Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m
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3 |
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[69th of 117]
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Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m
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1 |
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[97th of 99]
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Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m
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23 |
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[40th of 137]
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Highways > Paved
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2,094 km |
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[96th of 171]
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Highways > Total
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19,032 km |
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[79th of 181]
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Motor vehicles
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33 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[89th of 134]
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Ports and harbors Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff, Puerto Cabezas, Puerto Sandino, Rama, San Juan del Sur |
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Railways > Narrow gauge
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6 km 1.067-m gauge (2005) |
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Railways > Total
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6 km
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[134th of 134]
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Roads, paved > % of total roads
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11.36 %
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[54th of 163]
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Roads, total network > km
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18,669 km
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[55th of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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2,299 km
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[135th of 205]
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Roadways > Total
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19,036 km
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[111st of 222]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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16,737 km
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[73rd of 175]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > international territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank region; the 1992 ICJ ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite resolution to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca, which considers Honduran access to the Pacific; legal dispute over navigational rights of San Juan River on border with Costa Rica |
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Travel services > % of commercial service exports
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76.17 %
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[14th of 153]
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Travel services > % of commercial service imports
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22.45 %
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[76th of 153]
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Vehicle abundance
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0.41 per square km |
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[121st of 141]
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Waterways
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2,220 km
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[41st of 106]
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... View all Transportation stats
SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Nicaragua, Republic of Nicaragua, Republica de Nicaragua
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