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Transport Stats: compare key data on Canada & Pitcairn Islands

Definitions

  • Airports: Total number of airports. Runways must be useable, but may be unpaved. May not have facilities for refuelling, maintenance, or air traffic control.
  • Airports > Per capita: Total number of airports. Runways must be useable, but may be unpaved. May not have facilities for refuelling, maintenance, or air traffic control. Per capita figures expressed per 1 million population.
  • Highways > Paved: total length of the paved parts of the highway system
  • Highways > Paved > Per capita: total length of the paved parts of the highway system Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Highways > Total: total length of the highway system
  • Highways > Total > Per capita: total length of the highway system Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Highways > Unpaved: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system
  • Highways > Unpaved > Per capita: total length of the unpaved parts of the highway system Per capita figures expressed per 1,000 population.
  • Ports and harbors: The major ports and harbors selected on the basis of overall importance to each country. This is determined by evaluating a number of factors (e.g., dollar value of goods handled, gross tonnage, facilities, and military significance).
  • Ports and terminals: This entry lists major ports and terminals primarily on the basis of the amount of cargo tonnage shipped through the facilities on an annual basis. In some instances, the number of containers handled or ship visits were also considered.
  • Roadways > Total: This entry gives the total length of the road network and includes the length of the paved and unpaved portions.
  • Roadways > Unpaved: This entry gives the total length of the road network and includes the length of the paved and unpaved portions.
  • Transnational Issues > Disputes > International: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
STAT Canada Pitcairn Islands HISTORY
Airports 1,467
Ranked 4th.
0.0
Ranked 242nd.

Airports > Per capita 40.22 per 1 million people
Ranked 46th.
0.0
Ranked 229th.

Highways > Paved 497,306 km
Ranked 2nd.
0.0
Ranked 15th.
Highways > Paved > Per capita 15.86 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st.
0.0
Ranked 15th.
Highways > Total 1.41 million km
Ranked 2nd. 220125 times more than Pitcairn Islands
6.4 km
Ranked 17th.
Highways > Total > Per capita 44.92 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st.
139.13 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st. 3 times more than Canada
Highways > Unpaved 911,494 km
Ranked 2nd. 142421 times more than Pitcairn Islands
6.4 km
Ranked 14th.
Highways > Unpaved > Per capita 29.06 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st.
139.13 km per 1,000 people
Ranked 1st. 5 times more than Canada
Ports and harbors Becancour (Quebec), Churchill, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, New Westminster, Prince Rupert, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick), St. John's (Newfoundland), Sept Isles, Sydney, Trois-Rivieres, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Windsor Adamstown (on Bounty Bay)
Ports and terminals Fraser River Port, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, Port-Cartier, Quebec City, Saint John (New Brunswick), Sept-Isles, Vancouver<br /><strong>oil terminals:</strong> Lower Lakes terminal Adamstown (on Bounty Bay)
Roadways > Total 1.04 million km
Ranked 7th. 173717 times more than Pitcairn Islands
6 km
Ranked 49th.
Roadways > Unpaved 626,700 km
Ranked 2nd. 104450 times more than Pitcairn Islands
6 km
Ranked 31st.
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International managed maritime boundary disputes with the US at Dixon Entrance, <a href=/encyclopedia/Bristol-Beaufort>Beaufort</a> Sea, Strait of Juan de Fuca, and around the disputed Machias Seal Island and North Rock; uncontested dispute with <a href=/country/da>Denmark</a> over Hans Island sovereignty in the <a href=/encyclopedia/John-F.-Kennedy>Kennedy</a> Channel between Ellesmere Island and <a href=/country/gl>Greenland</a> <a href=/country/vt>none</a>

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001

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