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CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
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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
Angola 2,638 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge
Antigua and Barbuda 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km 0.610-m gauge (used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane)
Argentina 7,922 km 1.000-m gauge; 237 km 0.750-m gauge
Australia 14,074 km 1.067-m gauge (2,453 km electrified)
Austria 371 km 1.000-m gauge; 88 km 0.760-m gauge (25 km electrified)
Bangladesh 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge
Benin 758 km 1.000-m gauge
Bolivia 3,504 km 1.000-m gauge
Botswana 888 km 1.067-m gauge
Brazil 23,773 km 1.000-m gauge (581 km electrified)
Brunei 13 km 0.610-m gauge
Bulgaria 245 km 0.760-m gauge
Burkina Faso 622 km 1.000-m gauge
Burma 3,955 km 1.000-m gauge
Cambodia 602 km 1.000-m gauge
Cameroon 987 km 1.000-m gauge
Chile 3,754 km 1.000-m gauge
China 3,600 km 1.000-m and 0.750-m gauge local industrial lines
Colombia 3,154 km 0.914-m gauge
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
Congo, Republic of the 894 km 1.067-m gauge
Costa Rica 278 km 1.067-m gauge
Czech Republic 99 km 0.760-m gauge
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
El Salvador 283 km 0.914-m gauge
Eritrea 306 km 0.950-m gauge
Ethiopia 699 km 1.000-m gauge
European Union 7,861 km
Fiji 597 km 0.600-m gauge
France 167 km 1.000-m gauge
Georgia 37 km 0.912-m gauge (37 electrified)
Germany 229 km 1.000-m gauge (16 km electrified); 24 km 0.750-m gauge
Ghana 953 km 1.067-m gauge
Greece 961 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge
Guatemala 886 km 0.914-m gauge
Guinea 662 km 1.000-m gauge
Guyana 48 km 0.914-m gauge
Haiti 40 km 0.760-m gauge; single-track
Honduras 279 km 1.067-m gauge; 420 km 0.914-m gauge
Hungary 219 km 0.760-m gauge
India 13,290 km 1.000-m gauge (165 km electrified); 3,124 km 0.762-m gauge and 0.610-m gauge
Indonesia 5,961 km 1.067-m gauge (125 km electrified); 497 km 0.750-m gauge
Ireland 1,365 km 0.914-m gauge (operated by the Irish Peat Board to transport peat to power stations and briquetting plants)
Italy 123 km 1.000-m gauge (123 km electrified); 1,299 km 0.950-m gauge (161 km electrified)
Japan 77 km 1.372-m gauge (77 km electrified); 20,182 km 1.067-m gauge (13,334 km electrified); 11 km 0.762-m gauge (11 km electrified)
Jordan 505 km 1.050-m gauge
Kenya 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge
Korea, North 665 km 0.762-m gauge
Latvia 33 km 0.750-m gauge
Lebanon 82 km 1.050 m
Liberia 145 km 1.067-m gauge
Lithuania 169 km 0.750-m gauge
Madagascar 854 km 1.000-m gauge
Malawi 797 km 1.067-m gauge
Malaysia 1,833 km 1.000-m gauge (150 km electrified)
Mali 729 km 1.000-m gauge
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
Namibia 2,382 km 1.067-m gauge
Nepal 59 km 0.762-m gauge
New Zealand 4,128 km 1.067-m gauge (506 km electrified)
Nicaragua 6 km 1.067-m gauge
Nigeria 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge
Pakistan 445 km 1.000-m gauge
Panama 278 km 0.914-m gauge
Peru 263 km 0.914-m gauge
Philippines 897 km 1.067-m gauge (492 km are in operation)
Poland 1,135 km various gauges including 1.000-m, 0.785-m, 0.750-m, and 0.600-m
Portugal 183 km 1.000-m gauge
Puerto Rico 96 km 1.000-m gauge
Romania 427 km 0.760-m gauge
Russia 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
Saint Kitts and Nevis 50 km 0.762-m gauge on Saint Kitts for tourists
Senegal 906 km 1.000 meter gauge
Sierra Leone 84 km 1.067-m gauge
Singapore 38.6 km 1.000-m gauge
Slovakia 50 km (1.000-m or 0.750-m gauge)
South Africa 20,436 km 1.065-m gauge (8,931 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge
Spain 1,928 km 1.000-m gauge (815 km electrified); 28 km 0.914-m gauge (28 km electrified)
Sri Lanka 59 km 0.762-m gauge
Sudan 4,578 km 1.067-m gauge; 1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations
Suriname 86 km 1.000-m gauge
Swaziland 301 km 1.067-m gauge
Switzerland 1,268 km 1.000-m gauge (1,274 km electrified); 10 km 0.800-m gauge (10 km electrified)
Syria 251 km 1.050-m gauge
Taiwan 1,102 km 1.067-m gauge (685 km electrified)
Tanzania 969 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,721 km 1.000-m gauge
Thailand 4,071 km 1.000-m gauge
Togo 568 km 1.000-m gauge
Tunisia 1,674 km 1.000-m gauge (65 km electrified)
Uganda 1,244 km 1.000-m gauge
Vietnam 2,169 km 1.000-m gauge
Zambia 2,157 km 1.067-m gauge
Zimbabwe 3,077 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified)
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.
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CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
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