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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	0.1 million tons/km		[141st of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	32,000		[145th of 164]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Airports	53		[91st of 247]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Highways > Paved	657 km		[93rd of 113]
Source: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Total	10,600 km		[71st of 118]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Motor vehicles	13 motor vehicles per 100 p		[102nd of 134]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ports and harbors Buchanan, Greenville, Harper, Monrovia, Robertsport
Source: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ports and terminals	Buchanan, Monrovia
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail lines > total route-km	490 km		[97th of 111]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Railways > Standard gauge	345 km		[49th of 64]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Railways > Total	490 km		[114th of 220]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Roads, paved > % of total roads	6.2 %		[134th of 163]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Roads, total network > km	10,600 km		[110th of 172]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Roadways > Paved	657 km		[32nd of 81]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Roadways > Total	10,600 km		[25th of 85]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Roadways > Unpaved	9,943 km		[15th of 79]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international domestic fighting among disparate rebel groups, warlords, and youth gangs in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone have created insurgencies, street violence, looting, arms trafficking, and ethnic conflicts and refugees in border areas; the Cote d'Ivoire Government accuses Liberia of supporting Ivorian rebels
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Vehicle abundance	0.37 per square km		[122nd of 141]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Waterways	0 km		[154th of 165]
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

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