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Transportation Statistics > Railways > Narrow gauge (most recent) by country

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Algeria 1,085 km 1.055-m gauge (2005)
Angola 2,638 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2005)
Argentina 7,922 km 1.000-m gauge; 237 km 0.750-m gauge (2005)
Australia 14,831 km 1.067-m gauge (2,462 km electrified)
Austria 21 km 1.000-m gauge; 422 km 0.760-m gauge (109 km electrified) (2005)
Bangladesh 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Benin 578 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Bolivia 3,519 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Botswana 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Brazil 23,785 km 1.000-m gauge (581 km electrified)
Bulgaria 245 km 0.760-m gauge (2005)
Burkina Faso 622 km 1.000-m gauge
Burma 3,955 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Cambodia 602 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Cameroon 987 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Chile 3,754 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Colombia 3,154 km 0.914-m gauge (2005)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km 1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge (2005)
Congo, Republic of the 894 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Costa Rica 278 km 1.067-m gauge
Czech Republic 99 km 0.760-m gauge (2005)
Côte d'Ivoire 660 km 1.000 meter gauge
Djibouti 100 km 1.000-m gauge
Dominican Republic 142 km 0.762-m gauge
Ecuador 966 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
El Salvador 562 km 0.914-m gauge
Eritrea 306 km 0.950-m gauge (2005)
Ethiopia 681 km 1.000-m gauge
Fiji 597 km 0.600-m gauge
France 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Georgia 37 km 0.912-m gauge (37 electrified) (2005)
Germany 229 km 1.000-m gauge (16 km electrified); 24 km 0.750-m gauge (2005)
Ghana 953 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Greece 961 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge
Guatemala 886 km 0.914-m gauge (2005)
Guinea 662 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Guyana 48 km 0.914-m gauge
Honduras 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m gauge (2005)
Hungary 219 km 0.760-m gauge (2005)
India 14,406 km 1.000-m gauge (165 km electrified); 3,106 km 0.762-m gauge and 0.610-m gauge (2005)
Indonesia 5,961 km 1.067-m gauge (125 km electrified); 497 km 0.750-m gauge (2005)
Ireland 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants) (2005)
Italy 123 km 1.000-m gauge (122 km electrified); 1,299 km 0.950-m gauge (161 km electrified) (2005)
Japan 77 km 1.372-m gauge (77 km electrified); 20,264 km 1.067-m gauge (13,280 km electrified); 11 km 0.762-m gauge (11 km electrified) (2005)
Jordan 505 km 1.050-m gauge (2005)
Kenya 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Latvia 33 km 0.750-m gauge (2005)
Lebanon 82 km 1.050 m
Liberia 145 km 1.067-m gauge
Madagascar 854 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Malawi 797 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Malaysia 1,833 km 1.000-m gauge (150 km electrified) (2005)
Mali 729 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Man, Isle of 58 km 0.914-m gauge (29 km electrified)
Mozambique 2,983 km 1.067-m gauge; 140 km 0.762-m gauge (2005)
Namibia 2,382 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Nepal 59 km 0.762-m gauge (2005)
New Zealand 4,128 km 1.067-m gauge (506 km electrified) (2005)
Nicaragua 6 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Nigeria 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Pakistan 445 km 1.000-m gauge (2004)
Panama 278 km 0.914-m gauge (2005)
Peru 500 km 0.914-m gauge (2005)
Philippines 897 km 1.067-m gauge (492 km are in operation) (2005)
Portugal 274 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Puerto Rico 96 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Romania 427 km 0.760-m gauge (2005)
Russia 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 50 km 0.762-m gauge on Saint Kitts to serve sugarcane plantations during harvest season and for tourists (2005)
Senegal 906 km 1.000 meter gauge (2005)
Slovakia 50 km (1.000-m or 0.750-m gauge) (2005)
South Africa 20,436 km 1.065-m gauge (8,868 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge (2005)
Spain 1,928 km 1.000-m gauge (815 km electrified); 28 km 0.914-m gauge (28 km electrified) (2005)
Sudan 4,578 km 1.067-m gauge; 1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations (2005)
Swaziland 301 km 1.067-m gauge (2005)
Switzerland 1,339 km 1.000-m gauge (1,338 km electrified); 10 km 0.800-m gauge (10 km electrified) (2005)
Syria 251 km 1.050-m gauge (2005)
Taiwan 1,097 km 1.067-m gauge (685 km electrified)
Tanzania 969 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,721 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Thailand 4,071 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Togo 568 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Tunisia 1,674 km 1.000-m gauge (65 km electrified)
Uganda 1,244 km 1.000-m gauge (2005)
Vietnam 2,169 km 1.000-m gauge
Zambia 2,173 km 1.067-m gauge
Zimbabwe 3,077 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified) (2005)


DEFINITION: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.

SOURCE: CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007

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