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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	7.36 million tons/km		[111st of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	66,273		[137th of 164]
Aircraft departures	2,000		[132nd of 155]
Airports	33		[116th of 247]
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Highways > Paved	2,001 km		[68th of 113]
Highways > Total	12,506 km		[66th of 118]
Highways > Unpaved	10,505 km		[47th of 113]
Motor vehicles	6 motor vehicles per 100 p		[115th of 134]
Ports and harbors	none
Rail lines > total route-km	622 km		[92nd of 111]
Railways > Total	622 km		[107th of 220]
Roads, paved > % of total roads	31.21 %		[44th of 163]
Roads, total network > km	15,272 km		[59th of 172]
Roadways > Paved	3,857 km		[61st of 81]
Roadways > Total	92,495 km		[29th of 85]
Roadways > Unpaved	88,638 km		[17th of 79]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international two villages are in dispute along the border with Benin; Benin accuses Burkina Faso of moving boundary pillars; Burkina Faso border regions have become a staging area for Liberia and Cote d'Ivoire rebels and an asylum for refugees caught in regional fighting; the Ivoirian Government accuses Burkina Faso of supporting Ivoirian rebels
Vehicle abundance	0.22 per square km		[128th of 141]
Waterways	0 km		[89th of 165]

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