Railways

total: 11,385 km (3,888 km electrified)

standard gauge: 10,898 km

narrow gauge: 487 km (1996)

National Railway Operator: Căile Ferate Române Căile Ferate Române is the official designation of the state railway carrier of Romania. ...

City with underground railway system: Bucharest (see: Bucharest Metro)+ Light Rail System RATB This page refers to urban rail mass transit systems. ... Bucharest (Romanian: BucureÅŸti) is the capital city and industrial and commercial centre of Romania, located in the southeast of the country, on the DâmboviÅ£a river. ... Bucharest Metro Map The Bucharest Metro (Metroul BucureÅŸti in Romanian) is an underground urban railway network that serves the capital of Romania, Bucharest. ... Regia Autonomă de Transport Bucureşti is a public surface transit operator in Bucharest, the capital of Romania. ...

Rail links with adjacent countries

• Ukraine - yes - Break-of-gauge 1435mm/1524mm
• Moldova - yes - Break-of-gauge 1435mm/1524mm
• Hungary - yes
• Serbia - yes
• Bulgaria - yes

With railways, a break-of-gauge is where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge. ... With railways, a break-of-gauge is where a line of one gauge meets a line of a different gauge. ...

Highways

total: 153,359 km Mitchell Freeway in Perth, Western Australia For other uses, see Highway (disambiguation). ...

paved: 103,671 km (including 229 km of expressways)

unpaved: 49,688 km (1998 est.)

• Roads and Expressways in Romania

Public roads in Romania are ranked according to importance and traffic as follows: motorways (autostradă - pl. ...

Waterways

1,724 km (1984)

Pipelines

crude oil 2,800 km; petroleum products 1,429 km; natural gas 6,400 km (1992)

Ports

Brăila, Constanţa, Galaţi, Mangalia, Sulina, Tulcea Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... Brăila is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of the Braila county, in the close vecinity of Spanish Libro de conoscimiento (Book of knowledge). This may have been an erroneous transcription of Brillago. ... Constanţa (old names: Kustendji, Kustendja, Köstence, Constantza) is a seaport on the Black Sea and the capital of Constanţa county, Romania. ... Galaţi is a city in eastern Romania, on the banks of the Danube, very close to Braila. ... Mangalia (population:40,000) is a city and a port on the Romanian coast of the Black Sea. ... Sulina is a town in Romania, at the mouth of the Sulina branch of the Danube. ... Tulcea (population: 92,000) is a city in Dobruja, Romania. ...

Merchant marine

total: 142 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 1,154,127 GRT/1,612,314 DWT

ships by type: bulk 15, cargo 110, container 1, passenger 1, passenger/cargo 1, petroleum tanker 5, rail car carrier 2, roll-on/roll-off 6, specialized tanker 1 (1999 est.) 1999 is a common year starting on Friday of the Common Era, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Airports

62 (1999 est.)

Airports - with paved runways

total: 25

over 3,047 m: 4

2,438 to 3,047 m: 9

1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 (1999 est.)

Airports - with unpaved runways

total: 37 A runway is a strip of land on an airport, on which aircraft can take off and land. ...

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 12

under 914 m: 23 (1999 est.)

Heliports

1 (1999 est.)

• Air transportation in Romania

Romania has a rich tradition in the aviation field. ...

See also

• Romania