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Transport Stats: compare key data on Germany & Holy See (Vatican City)

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.
  • Heliports: Total number of established helicopter take-off and landing sites (which may or may not have fuel or other services).
  • 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).
  • Rail > Electrified railway length: Electrified length (km).

    No date was available from the Wikipedia article, so we used the date of retrieval.

  • Rail > Railway length: Railway length in kilometers.
  • Railways > A note: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
  • Railways > Total: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, dual, narrow, standard, and other.
  • Transnational Issues > Disputes > International: Lists border, territory and resource disputes by country.
STAT Germany Holy See (Vatican City) HISTORY
Airports 539
Ranked 13th.
0.0
Ranked 245th.

Airports > Per capita 6.67 per 1 million people
Ranked 127th.
0.0
Ranked 232nd.

Heliports 23
Ranked 12th. 23 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)
1
Ranked 52nd.
Ports and harbors Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden, Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Luebeck, Magdeburg, Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart none
Rail > Electrified railway length 20,497 km
Ranked 4th.
0.0
Ranked 43th.
Rail > Railway length 41,981 km
Ranked 5th. 48702 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)
0.862 km
Ranked 147th.
Railways > A note since privatization in 1994, Deutsche Bahn AG (DBAG) no longer publishes details of the track it owns; <a href=/kp/in+addition>in addition</a> to the DBAG system there are 102 privately owned railway companies which own approximately 3,000 to 4,000 km of track (2001 est.) a spur of the <a href=/kp/Italian><a href=/country/it>Italian</a></a> <a href=/kp/Railways>Railways</a> system, serving Rome's Saint Peter's station (2001 est.)
Railways > Total 41,981 km
Ranked 6th. 48815 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)
0.86 km
Ranked 9th.
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International <a href=/country/vt>none</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; Wikipedia: List of countries by rail transport network size (Long List); CIA World Factbook, December 2003; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001

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