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CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
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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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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.
SOURCE: All
CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
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