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

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  • 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.
STAT Holy See (Vatican City) United Kingdom HISTORY
Airports 0.0
Ranked 245th.
460
Ranked 18th.

Airports > Per capita 0.0
Ranked 232nd.
7.39 per 1 million people
Ranked 119th.

Heliports 1
Ranked 52nd.
9
Ranked 24th. 9 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)

Ports and harbors none Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Dover, Falmouth, Felixstowe, Glasgow, Grangemouth, Hull, Leith, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Peterhead, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Ramsgate, Scapa Flow, Southampton, Sullom Voe, Teesport, Tyne
Rail > Electrified railway length 0.0
Ranked 43th.
5,328 km
Ranked 12th.
Rail > Railway length 0.862 km
Ranked 147th.
16,321 km
Ranked 17th. 18934 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.) all 1.600-m gauge track is in common carrier service in <a href=/kp/Northern>Northern</a> <a href=/country/ei><a href=/country/ei>Ireland</a></a> (1996)
Railways > Total 0.86 km
Ranked 9th.
16,454 km
Ranked 17th. 19133 times more than Holy See (Vatican City)

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

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