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Central America and the Caribbean > Nicaragua > Transportation

NICARAGUAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 500 [150th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 3 [69th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 1 [97th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 23 [40th of 137]
Highways > Paved 2,094 km [96th of 171]
Highways > Total 19,032 km [79th of 181]
Motor vehicles 33 motor vehicles per 100 p [89th of 134]
Ports and harbors
Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff, Puerto Cabezas, Puerto Sandino, Rama, San Juan del Sur
Railways > Narrow gauge 6 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Railways > Total 6 km [134th of 134]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 11.36 % ... [54th of 163]
Roads, total network > km 18,669 km ... [55th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 2,299 km [135th of 205]
Roadways > Total 19,036 km [111st of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 16,737 km [73rd of 175]
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
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 76.17 % ... [14th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 22.45 % ... [76th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 0.41 per square km [121st of 141]
Waterways 2,220 km [41st of 106]

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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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