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| SOUTH AFRICAN TRANSPORTATION STATS: |
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Aircraft departures
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122,300 |
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[28th of 155]
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Motor vehicles
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146 motor vehicles per 100 p |
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[54th of 134]
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Ports and harbors
Cape Town, Durban, East London, Mossel Bay, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha |
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Rail usage statistics > Freight rail by billions of tonne-kilometers > Billion tonne-kilometres
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108.51
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[9th of 29]
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Railways > A note
in addition, South Africa has an electrified 1.065-m gauge commuter rail system, with a total length of 1,254 km, which serves Johannesburg-Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, East London, and Port Elizabeth (2001) |
Railways > Narrow gauge
20,436 km 1.065-m gauge (8,868 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge (2005) |
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Railways > Total
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20,872 km
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[14th of 134]
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Railways, goods transported > million ton-km
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108,513 million ton-km
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[9th of 84]
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Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km
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991 million passenger-km
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[53rd of 83]
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Roads, goods transported > million ton-km
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434 million ton-km
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[24th of 52]
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Roads, paved > % of total roads
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17.3 %
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[51st of 163]
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Roads, total network > km
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364,131 km
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[11th of 172]
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Roadways > Paved
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73,506 km
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[34th of 205]
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Roadways > Total
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362,099 km
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[17th of 222]
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Roadways > Unpaved
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288,593 km
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[8th of 175]
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Speed limit > Speed limits in specific countries > Within Towns
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60 |
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Travel services > % of commercial service exports
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67.31 %
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[29th of 153]
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Travel services > % of commercial service imports
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28.44 %
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[49th of 153]
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Vehicle abundance
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9.14 per square km |
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[55th of 141]
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World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations > participating countries > Code
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47
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[6th of 44]
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... View all Transportation stats
SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; Wikipedia: Rail usage statistics by country
; CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007
; World Development Indicators database; Wikipedia: Speed limit
; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001; Wikipedia: World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
South Africa, Republic of South Africa, rep. of s. africa, SAFRICA
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