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Air transport, freight > million tons per km	0.54 million tons/km		[144th of 153]
Air transport, passengers carried	61,031		[150th of 164]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Aircraft departures	500		[150th of 155]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Airports	163		[36th of 247]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005
Driving side of the road > Left or right	Right side
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Highways > Paved	2,094 km		[52nd of 113]
Source: World standards on users.pandora.be
Highways > Total	19,032 km		[46th of 118]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Motor vehicles	33 motor vehicles per 100 p		[89th of 134]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Pipelines	oil 54 km
Source: United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook
Ports and harbors Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff, Puerto Cabezas, Puerto Sandino, Rama, San Juan del Sur
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Ports and terminals Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Rail lines > total route-km	6 km		[98th of 111]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Railways > Total	6 km		[131st of 220]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Roads, total network > km	18,669 km		[55th of 172]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Roadways > Paved	2,299 km		[35th of 81]
Source: World Development Indicators database
Roadways > Total	19,036 km		[31st of 85]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Roadways > Unpaved	16,737 km		[16th of 79]
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international territorial disputes with Colombia over the Archipelago de San Andres y Providencia and Quita Sueno Bank region; the 1992 ICJ ruling for El Salvador and Honduras advised a tripartite resolution to establish a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca, which considers Honduran access to the Pacific; legal dispute over navigational rights of San Juan River on border with Costa Rica
Source: All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008
Vehicle abundance	0.41 per square km		[121st of 141]
Source: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001
Waterways	2,220 km		[13th of 165]
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

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