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

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 > Note: This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, standard, narrow, and dual. Other gauges are listed under note.
  • 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 Holy See (Vatican City) Russia HISTORY
Airports 0.0
Ranked 245th.
1,218
Ranked 5th.

Airports > Per capita 0.0
Ranked 232nd.
8.91 per 1 million people
Ranked 109th.

Heliports 1
Ranked 52nd.
49
Ranked 5th. 49 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)

Ports and harbors none Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinskiy, Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', De-Kastri, Indigirskiy, Kaliningrad, Kandalaksha, Kazan', Khabarovsk, Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Lazarev, Mago, Mezen', Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk, Novorossiysk, Onega, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Rostov, Shakhtersk, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Taganrog, Tuapse, Uglegorsk, Vanino, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg
Rail > Electrified railway length 0.0
Ranked 43th.
50,000 km
Ranked 1st.
Rail > Railway length 0.862 km
Ranked 147th.
87,157 km
Ranked 2nd. 101110 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)
Railways > A note 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.) an additional 63,000 km of broad gauge routes serve specific <a href=/graph-T/eco_ind>industries</a> and are not available for common carrier use (2002)
Railways > Note a spur of the Italian Railways system, serving Rome's Saint Peter's station an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrier lines serve industries
Railways > Total 0.86 km
Ranked 9th.
87,157 km
Ranked 2nd. 101345 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)

Transnational Issues > Disputes > International <a href=/country/vt>none</a> <a href=/country/ch>China</a> and <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a> in 2004 resolved their last border dispute over islands in the Amur and Argun Rivers, but details on demarcation have not yet been worked-out; the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group known in <a href=/country/ja>Japan</a> as the "Northern Territories" and in <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a> as the "Southern Kurils," occupied by the <a href=/country/sr>Soviet Union</a> in 1945, now administered by <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a>, and claimed by <a href=/country/ja>Japan</a>, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; about a third of the boundary with <a href=/country/gg>Georgia</a> remains undelimited and <a href=/country/vt>none</a> of it demarcated with several small, strategic segments remaining in dispute; <a href=/encyclopedia/Organization-for-Security-and-Co-operation-in-Europe>OSCE</a> observers monitor volatile areas such as the Pankisi Gorge in the Akhmeti region and the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia; equidistant seabed <a href=/encyclopedia/treaty>treaties</a> have been signed with <a href=/country/aj>Azerbaijan</a> and <a href=/country/kz>Kazakhstan</a> in the <a href=/encyclopedia/Caspian-Sea>Caspian</a> Sea but no consensus on dividing the water column among the littoral states; <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a> and <a href=/country/no>Norway</a> dispute their maritime limits in the Barents Sea and Russia's fishing rights beyond Svalbard's territorial limits within the <a href=/country/sv>Svalbard</a> Treaty zone; <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a> continues to reject signing and ratifying the joint 1996 technical border agreement with <a href=/country/en>Estonia</a>; the <a href=/country/rs>Russian</a> <a href=/encyclopedia/Parliament-(band)>Parliament</a> refuses to consider ratification of the boundary <a href=/encyclopedia/treaty>treaties</a> with <a href=/country/en>Estonia</a> and <a href=/country/lg>Latvia</a>, but in May 2003, ratified land and maritime boundary treaty with <a href=/country/lh>Lithuania</a>, which ratified the 1997 treaty in 1999, legalizing limits of former <a href=/encyclopedia/Soviet-Union>Soviet</a> republic borders; a simplified transit <a href=/graph-T/cur_reg>regime</a> was adopted in July 2003 for residents of the Kaliningrad coastal exclave to travel through <a href=/country/lh>Lithuania</a> to <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a>; delimitation of land boundary with <a href=/country/up>Ukraine</a> is complete, but demarcation remains unresolved; <a href=/country/up>Ukraine</a> protests Russia's construction of a causeway in the direction of Ukrainian-administered Tuzla Island in the Kerch Strait; <a href=/country/kz>Kazakhstan</a> and <a href=/country/rs>Russia</a> will complete delimitation of their interstate border in 2004 and demarcation is underway; <a href=/country/rs>Russian</a> Duma has not yet ratified 1990 Maritime Boundary Agreement with the US in the Bering Sea

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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