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Africa > Namibia > Transportation

NAMIBIAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 5,500 [113rd of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 4 [52nd of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 22 [14th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 71 [15th of 137]
Highways > Paved 9,172 km [64th of 171]
Highways > Total 66,467 km [43rd of 181]
Ports and harbors Luderitz, Walvis Bay
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km 1,081.6 million ton-km ... [53rd of 84]
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 48.5 million passenger-km ... [75th of 83]
Roads, goods transported > million ton-km 591 million ton-km ... [23rd of 52]
Roads, passengers carried > million passenger-km 47 million passenger-km ... [29th of 33]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 12.8 % ... [52nd of 163]
Roads, total network > km 42,237 km ... [39th of 172]
Roadways > Paved 5,406 km [104th of 205]
Roadways > Total 42,237 km [84th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 36,831 km [47th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
commission established with Botswana to resolve small residual disputes along the Caprivi Strip, including the Situngu marshlands along the Linyanti River; Botswana residents protest Namibia's planned construction of the Okavango hydroelectric dam on Popa Falls; managed dispute with South Africa over the location of the boundary in the Orange River; Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe boundary convergence is not clearly defined or delimited; Angolan rebels and refugees still reside in Namibia
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 87.49 % ... [7th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 23.32 % ... [84th of 153]
Vehicle abundance 2.16 per square km [88th of 141]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; 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

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Namibia, Republic of Namibia

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