The CIA World Factbook Edition 1997 Transportation
Railways In 36 editions of 36.
Railways was published in 36 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2025. The 1997 edition carries it in 241 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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World
1 entryWorld
- total :
- 1,201,337 km includes about 190,000 to 195,000 km of electrified routes of which 147,760 km are in Europe, 24,509 km in the Far East, 11,050 km in Africa, 4,223 km in South America, and 4,160 km in North America;
- note - fastest speed in daily service is 300 km/hr attained by France's Societe Nationale des Chemins-de-Fer Francais (SNCF) Le Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) - Atlantique line
- broad gauge:
- 251,153 km
- standard gauge:
- 710,754 km
- narrow gauge:
- 239,430 km
Africa
58 entriesAlgeria
- total :
- 4,772 km
- standard gauge:
- 3,616 km 1.435-m gauge (301 km electrified; 215 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 1,156 km 1.055-m gauge
Angola
- total :
- 2,952 km limited trackage in use because of land mines still in place from the civil war) (1997 est.)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,798 km 1.067-m gauge; 154 km 0.600-m gauge
Burkina Faso
- total:
- 622 km (517 km from Ouagadougou to the Cote d'Ivoire border and 105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya)
- narrow gauge:
- 622 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 5,138 km (1995); note - severely reduced trackage in use because of civil strife
- narrow gauge:
- 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified);
- 125 km 1.000-m gauge;
- 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 795 km (includes 285 km private track)
- narrow gauge:
- 795 km 1.067-m gauge (1995 est.)
Djibouti
- total:
- 97 km (Djibouti segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad)
- narrow gauge:
- 97 km 1.000-m gauge
Egypt
- total:
- 4,751 km
- standard gauge:
- 4,751 km 1,435-m gauge (42 km electrified; 951 km double track)
Eritrea
- total:
- 307 km
- narrow gauge:
- 307 km 0.950-m gauge (1995 est.)
note: nonoperational since 1978 except for an about 5 km stretch that was reopened in Massawa in 1994; rehabilitation of the remainder and of the rolling stock is under way; links Ak'ordat and Asmara (formerly Asmera) with the port of Massawa (formerly Mits'iwa)
Swaziland now Eswatini
- total:
- 297 km; note - includes 71 km which are not in use
- narrow gauge:
- 297 km 1.067-m gauge
Ethiopia
- total:
- 681 km (Ethiopian segment of the Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad)
- narrow gauge:
- 681 km 1.000-m gauge
Gabon
- total:
- 649 km Gabon State Railways (OCTRA)
- standard gauge:
- 649 km 1.435-m gauge; single track (1994)
Ghana
- total:
- 953 km (undergoing major renovation)
- narrow gauge :
- 953 km 1.067-m gauge (32 km double track) (1995 est.)
Guinea
- total:
- 1,086 km
- standard gauge:
- 279 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 807 km 1.000-m gauge (includes 662 km in common carrier service from Kankan to Conakry)
Lesotho
- total:
- 2.6 km; note - owned by, operated by, and included in the statistics of South Africa
- narrow gauge:
- 2.6 km 1.067-m gauge (1995)
Liberia
- total:
- 490 km (single track);
- note - three rail systems owned and operated by foreign steel and financial interests in conjunction with Liberian Government;
- one of these, the Lamco Railroad, closed in 1989 after iron ore production ceased;
- the other two have been shut down by the civil war
- standard gauge :
- 345 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 145 km 1.067-m gauge
Libya
note : Libya has had no railroad in operation since 1965, all previous systems having been dismantled; current plans are to construct a 1.435-m standard gauge line from the Tunisian frontier to Tripoli and Misratah, then inland to Sabha, center of a mineral-rich area, but there has been no progress; other plans made jointly with Egypt would establish a rail line from As Sallum, Egypt, to Tobruk with completion set for mid-1994; no progress has been reported
Mali
- total:
- 641 km; (linked to Senegal's rail system through Kayes)
- narrow gauge:
- 641 km 1.000-m gauge (1995)
Mauritania
- total:
- 704 km (single track); note - owned and operated by government mining company
- standard gauge :
- 704 km 1.435-m gauge (1995)
Morocco
- total:
- 1,907 km
- standard gauge:
- 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (1003 km electrified; 246 km double track) (1994)
Nigeria
- total:
- 3,557 km
- narrow gauge:
- 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge
- standard gauge:
- 52 km 1.435-m gauge (1995)
Sierra Leone
- total :
- 84 km used on a limited basis because the mine at Marampa is closed
- narrow gauge:
- 84 km 1.067-m gauge
South Africa
- total:
- 21,431 km
- narrow gauge:
- 20,995 km 1.067-m gauge (9,087 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge (1995)
Tanzania
- total :
- 3,569 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,600 km 1.000-m gauge; 969 km 1.067-m gauge
note: the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri Mposhi in Zambia (of which 969 km are in Tanzania and 891 km are in Zambia) is not a part of Tanzania Railways Corporation; because of the difference in gauge, this system does not connect to Tanzania Railways
Tunisia
- total:
- 2,260 km
- standard gauge:
- 492 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge :
- 1,758 km 1.000-m gauge
- dual gauge:
- 10 km 1.000-m and 1.435-m gauges (1993 est.)
Uganda
- total:
- 1,241 km
- narrow gauge:
- 1,241 km 1.000-m gauge
note : a program to rehabilitate the railroad is underway (1995)
Zambia
- total:
- 2,164 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,164 km 1.067-m gauge (13 km double track)
note: the total includes 891 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), which operates 1,860 km of 1.067-m narrow gauge track between Dar es Salaam and New Kapiri Mposhi where it connects to the Zambia Railways system; TAZARA is not a part of Zambia Railways
Zimbabwe
- total :
- 2,759 km (1995)
- narrow gauge:
- 2,759 km 1.067-m gauge (313 km electrified; 42 km double track) (1995 est.)
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
23 entriesAfghanistan
- total:
- 24.6 km
- broad gauge:
- 9.6 km 1.524-m gauge from Gushgy (Turkmenistan) to Towraghondi;
- 15 km 1,524-m gauge from Termiz (Uzbekistan) to Kheyrabad transshipment point on south bank of Amu Darya
Armenia
- total:
- 825 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 825 km 1.520-m gauge (1992)
Azerbaijan
- total:
- 2,125 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 2,125 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (1993)
Bangladesh
- total:
- 2,892 km
- broad gauge:
- 978 km 1.676-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 1,914 km 1.000-m gauge (1992)
China
- total :
- 62,500 km (including 5,400 km of provincial "local" rails)
- standard gauge:
- 58,900 km 1.435-m gauge (9,700 km electrified; 18,100 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 3,600 km 0.750-m gauge local industrial lines (1996 est.)
Georgia
- total:
- 1,583 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 1,583 km 1.520-m gauge (1993)
India
- total:
- 62,462 km (11,793 km electrified; 12,617 km double track)
- broad gauge:
- 37,824 km 1.676-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 20,653 km 1.000-m gauge; 3,985 km 0.762-m and 0.610-m gauge (1995 est.)
Japan
- total:
- 23,670.7 km
- standard gauge :
- 2,893.1 km 1.435-m gauge (entirely electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 89.8 km 1.372-m gauge (89.8 km electrified);
- 20,656.8 km 1.067-m gauge (10,383.6 km electrified);
- 31 km 0.762-m gauge (3.6 km electrified) (1994)
Kazakstan now Kazakhstan
- total :
- 13,841 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 13,841 km 1.520-m gauge (3,299 km electrified) (1992)
Korea, North now North Korea
- total:
- 5,000 km
- standard gauge :
- 4,095 km 1.435-m gauge (3,500 km electrified; 159 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 665 km 0.762-m gauge
- dual gauge:
- 240 km (standard and broad gauge) (1996 est.)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 3,081 km
- standard gauge :
- 3,081 km 1.435-m gauge (560 km electrified) (1996 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
- total:
- 370 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 370 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)
Pakistan
- total:
- 8,163 km
- broad gauge:
- 7,718 km 1.676-m gauge (293 km electrified; 1,037 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 445 km 1.000-m gauge (1996 est.)
Russia
- total:
- 154,000 km;
- note - 87,000 km in common carrier service (38,000 km electrified);
- 67,000 km serve specific industries and are not available for common carrier use
- broad gauge:
- 154,000 km 1.520-m gauge (1 January 1994)
Sri Lanka
- total:
- 1,484 km
- broad gauge:
- 1,459 km 1.676-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 25 km 0.762-m gauge (1995)
Uzbekistan
- total:
- 3,380 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 3,380 km 1.520-m gauge (300 km electrified) (1993)
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesAntigua and Barbuda
- total:
- 77 km
- narrow gauge:
- 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km 0.610-m gauge (used almost exclusively for handling sugarcane)
Costa Rica
- total :
- 950 km
- narrow gauge:
- 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified)
note: the entire system was scheduled to be shut down on 31 June 1995 because of insolvency
Cuba
- total:
- 4,677 km
- standard gauge:
- 4,677 km 1.435-m gauge (132 km electrified)
note: a large amount of track is in private use by sugar plantations
Dominican Republic
- total:
- 757 km
- standard gauge:
- 375 km 1.435-m gauge (Central Romana Railroad)
- narrow gauge:
- 142 km 0.762-m gauge (Dominica Government Railway); 240 km operated by sugar companies in various gauges (0.558-m, 0.762-m, 1.067-m gauges) (1995)
El Salvador
- total:
- 602 km (single track; note - some sections abandoned, unusable, or operating at reduced capacity)
- narrow gauge:
- 602 km 0.914-m gauge
Haiti
- total:
- 40 km (single track; privately owned industrial line) - closed in early 1990's
- narrow gauge :
- 40 km 0.760-m gauge
Honduras
- total:
- 595 km
- narrow gauge:
- 190 km 1.067-m gauge;
- 128 km 1.057-m gauge;
- 277 km 0.914-m gauge
note: in 1993, there was a total of 988 km of track (1995)
Jamaica
- total:
- 272 km
- standard gauge:
- 272 km 1.435-m gauge;
- note - 207 km belonging to the Jamaica Railway Corporation which were in common carrier service are no longer operational;
- the remaining track is privately owned and used to transport bauxite
Nicaragua
- total:
- 0 km
- narrow gauge:
- 0 km 1.067-m gauge; note - part of the previous 376 km system was closed and dismantled in 1993 and, in 1994, the remainder was closed, the track and rolling stock being sold for scrap
Puerto Rico
- total:
- 96 km
- narrow gauge:
- 96 km 1.000-m gauge, rural, narrow-gauge system for hauling sugarcane; no passenger service
Saint Kitts and Nevis
- total:
- 58 km
- narrow gauge:
- 58 km 0.762-m gauge on Saint Kitts to serve sugarcane plantations (1995)
Trinidad and Tobago
note: minimal agricultural railroad system near San Fernando; railway service was discontinued in 1968
Europe
46 entriesAustria
- total :
- 5,624 km
- standard gauge:
- 5,269 km 1.435-m gauge (3,263 km electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 355 km 1.000-m and 0.760-m gauge (86 km electrified) (1995)
Belgium
- total:
- 3,396 km (2,363 km electrified; 2,563 km double track)
- standard gauge :
- 3,396 km 1.435-m gauge (1995)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 1,021 km (electrified 795 km; operating as diesel or steam until grids are repaired)
- standard gauge:
- 1,021 km 1.435-m gauge (1995); note - some segments need repair and/or reconstruction
Bulgaria
- total :
- 4,292 km
- standard gauge:
- 4,047 km 1.435-m gauge (2,650 km electrified; 917 double track)
- other gauge:
- 245 km 0.760-m gauge (1995)
Croatia
- total:
- 1,907 km
- standard gauge :
- 1,907 km 1.435-m gauge (769 km electrified)
note: some lines inoperative or not in use; disrupted by territorial dispute (1997)
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 9,441 km
- standard gauge :
- 9,345 km 1.435-m standard gauge (2641 km electrified at three voltages)
- narrow gauge:
- 96 km two narrow gauges (1995)
Denmark
- total:
- 2,848 km (499 km privately owned and operated)
- standard gauge:
- 2,848 km 1.435-m gauge (326 km electrified; 760 km double track) (1995)
Estonia
- total :
- 1,018 km common carrier lines only; does not include dedicated industrial lines
- broad gauge:
- 1,018 km 1.520-m gauge (132 km electrified) (1995)
Finland
- total:
- 5,895 km
- broad gauge:
- 5,895 km 1.524-m gauge (1,993 km electrified; 480 km double- or more-track) (1995)
France
- total:
- 34,123 km
- standard gauge:
- 33,524 km 1.435-m gauge;
- 32,275 km are operated by French National Railways (SNCF);
- 13,741 km of SNCF routes are electrified and 12,132 km are double- or multiple-tracked
- narrow gauge :
- 599 km 1.000-m gauge
note: does not include 33 tourist railroads, totaling 469 km, many being of very narrow gauge (1995)
Germany
- total:
- 43,966 km
- standard gauge :
- 43,531 km 1.435-m;
- 40,355 km are owned by Deutsche Bahn AG (DB);
- 17,015 km of the DB system are electrified and 16,941 km are double- or more-tracked
- narrow gauge:
- 389 km 1.000-m gauge (DB operates 146 km of 1.000-m gauge);
- 7 km 0.900-m gauge;
- 39 km 0.750-m gauge
note : in addition to the DB system there are 54 privately-owned industrial or excursion railways, ranging in route length from 2 km to 632 km, with a total length of 3,465 km (1995)
Greece
- total:
- 2,474 km
- standard gauge:
- 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge (36 km electrified; 100 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 887 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge (a rack type railway for steep grades)
Holy See (Vatican City)
- total:
- 862 meters; note - connects to Italy's network at Rome's Saint Peter's station
- narrow gauge:
- 862 meters 1.435-m gauge
Hungary
- total:
- 7,619 km
- broad gauge:
- 35 km 1.524-m gauge
- standard gauge:
- 7,408 km 1.435-m gauge (2,216 km electrified; 1,236 km double track)
- narrow gauge :
- 176 km 0.760-m gauge (1995)
note: Hungry and Austria jointly manage the cross-border standard-gauge railway between Gyor, Sopron, Ebenfurti, and Vasut, a distance of about 100 km
Ireland
- total:
- 1,947 km
- broad gauge:
- 1,947 km 1.600-m gauge (37 km electrified; 485 km double track) (1996)
Italy
- total :
- 18,961 km
- standard gauge:
- 17,981 km 1.435-m gauge; Italian Railways (FS) operates 16,118 km of the total standard gauge routes (10,560 km electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 113 km 1.000-m gauge (113 km electrified); 867 km 0.950-m gauge (144 km electrified)
Latvia
- total:
- 2,412 km
- broad gauge:
- 2,379 km 1.520-m gauge (271 km electrified) (1992)
- narrow gauge:
- 33 km 0.750-m gauge (1994)
Liechtenstein
- total:
- 18.5 km; note - owned, operated, and included in statistics of Austrian Federal Railways
- standard gauge:
- 18.5 km 1.435-m gauge (electrified)
Luxembourg
- total:
- 275 km
- standard gauge :
- 275 km 1.435-m gauge (262 km electrified; 178 km double track) (1995)
Netherlands
- total:
- 2,791 km
- standard gauge:
- 2,791 km 1.435-m gauge; 2,757 km are in common carrier service (1,991 km electrified) and 34 km serve tourists
Macedonia, now North Macedonia
- total:
- 699 km
- standard gauge:
- 699 km 1.435-m gauge (232 km electrified) (1995)
Norway
- total:
- 4,027 km
- standard gauge:
- 4,027 km 1.435-m gauge (2422 km electrified; 96 km double track) (1995)
Poland
- total:
- 24,313 km
- broad gauge :
- 652 km 1.520-m gauge
- standard gauge:
- 22,243 km 1.435-m gauge (11,648 km electrified; 8,978 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 1,418 km various gauges including 1.000-m, 0.785-m, 0.750-m, and 0.600-m (1995)
Portugal
- total:
- 3,068 km
- broad gauge:
- 2,761 km 1.668-m gauge (464 km electrified; 426 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 307 km 1.000-m gauge
note : in 1994, Portugal had 3,520 km of track of which 464 km were electrified
Romania
- total :
- 11,365 km
- broad gauge:
- 45 km 1.524-m gauge
- standard gauge:
- 10,893 km 1.435-m gauge (3,723 km electrified; 3,060 km double track)
- narrow gauge:
- 427 km 0.760-m gauge (1994)
San Marino
0 km; note - there is a 1.5 km cable railway connecting the city of San Marino to Borgo Maggiore
Serbia and Montenegro
- total:
- 3,960 km
- standard gauge:
- 3,960 km 1.435-m gauge (1,341 km electrified) (1994)
Slovakia
- total:
- 3,660 km
- broad gauge:
- 102 km 1.520-m gauge
- standard gauge :
- 3,507 km 1.435-m gauge (1424 km electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 51 km (46 km 1,000-m gauge; 5 km 0.750-m gauge) (1995)
Spain
- total:
- 14,343 km
- broad gauge:
- 12,139 km 1.668-m gauge (6,510 km electrified; 2,295 km double track)
- standard gauge:
- 488 km 1.435-m gauge (488 km electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 1,716 km (privately owned: 1,669 km 1.000-m gauge, 489 km electrified; 28 km 0.914-m gauge, 28 km electrified; government
- owned:
- 19 km 1.000-m gauge, all electrified)
Sweden
- total:
- 12,624 km (includes 953 km of privately-owned railways)
- standard gauge:
- 11,767 km 1.435-m gauge (7,320 km electrified and 1,152 km double track)
- other gauge:
- 857 km NA-m gauge (1995)
Switzerland
- total:
- 5,719 km (1,432 km double track)
- standard gauge:
- 3,283 km 1.435-m gauge (99% electrified; 310 km nongovernment owned)
- narrow gauge:
- 1,255 km 1.000-m gauge (99% electrified; 1,181 km nongovernment owned)
- other gauge :
- 1,181 km NA-m gauge (1995)
United Kingdom
- total :
- 17,561 km
- broad gauge:
- 434 km 1.600-m gauge (190 km double track); note - all 1.600-m gauge track, of which 357 km is in common carrier use, is in Northern Ireland
- standard gauge:
- 16,892 km 1.435-m gauge (4,928 km electrified; 12,591 km double or multiple track);
- note - 16,532 km of 1.435-m routes are in common carrier service;
- the remaining 360 km are operated by a total of 40 tourist or other private companies
- narrow gauge:
- 235 km 0.260-m, 0.311-m, 0.381-m, 0.600-m, 0.610-m, 0.686-m, 0.760-m, 0.762-m, 0.800-m, 0.825-m, 0.914-m and 1.067-m gauges;
- note - these short, narrow-gage lines are operated by a total of 25 tourist and other private firms (1995)
Middle East
17 entriesNorth America
5 entriesCanada
- total:
- 70,176 km; note - there are two major transcontinental freight
- railway systems:
- Canadian National (privatized November 1995) and Canadian Pacific Railway;
- passenger service provided by government-operated firm VIA, which has no trackage of its own
- standard gauge:
- 70,000 km 1.435-m gauge (63 km electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 176 km 0.914-m gauge (1995)
Mexico
- total:
- 20,567 km
- standard gauge:
- 20,477 km 1.435-m gauge (246 km electrified)
- narrow gauge :
- 90 km 0.914-m gauge (1994)
United States
- total:
- 240,000 km mainline routes (nongovernment owned)
- standard gauge:
- 240,000 km 1.435-m gauge (1989)
Oceania
28 entriesAustralia
- total :
- 38,563 km (2,914 km electrified; 172 km dual gauge)
- broad gauge:
- 6,083 km 1.600-m gauge
- standard gauge:
- 16,752 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 15,728 km 1.067-m gauge
Fiji
- total :
- 597 km; note - belongs to the government-owned Fiji Sugar Corporation
- narrow gauge:
- 597 km 0.610-m gauge (1995)
Nauru
- total:
- 3.9 km; note - used to haul phosphates from the center of the island to processing facilities on the southwest coast
South America
14 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 37,910 km
- broad gauge:
- 24,124 km 1.676-m gauge (142 km electrified)
- standard gauge:
- 2,765 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 11,021 km 1.000-m gauge (26 km electrified)
Bolivia
- total :
- 3,691 km (single track)
- narrow gauge:
- 3,652 km 1.000-m gauge; 39 km 0.760-m gauge (13 km electrified) (1995)
Brazil
- total:
- 27,418 km (1,750 km electrified)
- broad gauge:
- 5,730 km 1.600-m gauge
- standard gauge :
- 194 km 1.440-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 20,958 km 1.000-m gauge; 13 km 0.760-m gauge
- dual gauge:
- 523 km 1.000-m and 1.600-m gauges
Chile
- total:
- 6,782 km
- broad gauge:
- 3,743 km 1.676-m gauge (1,653 km electrified)
- narrow gauge:
- 116 km 1.067-m gauge; 2,923 km 1.000-m gauge (40 km electrified) (1995)
Colombia
- total:
- 3,386 km
- standard gauge:
- 150 km 1.435-m gauge (connects Cerrejon coal mines to maritime port at Bahia Portete)
- narrow gauge:
- 3,236 km 0.914-m gauge (1830 km in use) (1995)
Guyana
- total:
- 88 km
- standard gauge:
- 40 km 1.435-m gauge (dedicated to ore transport)
- narrow gauge:
- 48 km 0.914-m gauge (dedicated to ore transport)
Paraguay
- total:
- 971 km
- standard gauge:
- 441 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge :
- 60 km 1.000-m gauge
- other gauge:
- 470 km various gauges (privately owned)
Suriname
- total:
- 166 km (single track)
- standard gauge:
- 80 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 86 km 1.000-m gauge
Uruguay
- total:
- 2,070 km (461 km closed; additional 460 km only partially operational)
- standard gauge:
- 2,070 km 1.435-m gauge
Venezuela
- total :
- 584 km (336 km single track; 248 km privately owned)
- standard gauge:
- 584 km 1.435-m gauge
Southeast Asia
15 entriesHong Kong
- total :
- 34 km
- standard gauge:
- 34 km 1.435-m gauge (1996 est.)
note: also has 43 km of metro with 38 stations
Indonesia
- total:
- 6,458 km
- narrow gauge:
- 5,961 km 1.067-m gauge (101 km electrified; 101 km double track); 497 km 0.750-m gauge (1995)
Malaysia
- total:
- 1,806 km (Peninsular Malaysia 1,672 km; Sabah 134 km; Sarawak 0 km)
- narrow gauge:
- 1,806 km 1.000-m gauge (Peninsular Malaysia 1,672 km; Sabah 134 km)
Singapore
- total:
- 38.6 km
- narrow gauge:
- 38.6 km 1.000-m gauge
note: there is a 67 km mass transit system with 42 stations
Taiwan
- total :
- 4,600 km (498 km electrified); note - 1,108 km belongs to the Taiwan Railway Administration and the remaining 3,492 km is dedicated to industrial use
- narrow gauge:
- 4,600 km 1.067-m
Vietnam
- total :
- 2,835 km (in addition, there are 224 km not restored to service after war damage)
- standard gauge:
- 151 km 1.435-m gauge
- narrow gauge:
- 2,454 km 1.000-m gauge
- other gauge:
- 230 km NA-m dual gauge (three rails)
Cite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1997, “Railways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/railways/1997.