The CIA World Factbook Edition 1992 Communications
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 1992 edition carries it in 228 entries, in its Communications section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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Africa
54 entriesAlgeria
80,000 km total; 60,000 km concrete or bituminous, 20,000 km gravel, crushed stone, unimproved earth
Angola
73,828 km total; 8,577 km bituminous-surface treatment, 29,350 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth, remainder unimproved earth
Botswana
- 11,514 km total;
- 1,600 km paved;
- 1,700 km crushed stone or gravel, 5,177 km improved earth, 3,037 km unimproved earth
Burkina now Burkina Faso
- 16,500 km total; 1,300 km paved, 7,400 km improved, 7,800 km unimproved (1985)
Burundi
5,900 km total; 400 km paved, 2,500 km gravel or laterite, 3,000 km improved or unimproved earth
Cameroon
about 65,000 km total; includes 2,682 km paved, 32,318 km gravel and improved earth, and 30,000 km of unimproved earth
Central African Republic
22,000 km total; 458 km bituminous, 10,542 km improved earth, 11,000 unimproved earth
Zaire now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 146,500 km total;
- 2,800 km paved, 46,200 km gravel and improved earth;
- 97,500 unimproved earth
Congo now Republic of the Congo
- 11,960 km total;
- 560 km paved;
- 850 km gravel and laterite;
- 5,350 km improved earth;
- 5,200 km unimproved earth
Ivory Coast now Cote d'Ivoire
- 46,600 km total;
- 3,600 km paved;
- 32,000 km gravel, crushed stone, laterite, and improved earth;
- 11,000 km unimproved
Egypt
51,925 km total; 17,900 km paved, 2,500 km gravel, 13,500 km improved earth, 18,025 km unimproved earth
Swaziland now Eswatini
2,853 km total; 510 km paved, 1,230 km crushed stone, gravel, or stabilized soil, and 1,113 km improved earth
Ethiopia
44,300 km total; 3,650 km paved, 9,650 km gravel, 3,000 km improved earth, 28,000 km unimproved earth
Ghana
32,250 km total; 6,084 km concrete or bituminous surface, 26,166 km gravel, laterite, and improved earth surfaces
Guinea
30,100 km total; 1,145 km paved, 12,955 km gravel or laterite (of which barely 4,500 km are currently all-weather roads), 16,000 km unimproved earth (1987)
Lesotho
- 7,215 km total;
- 572 km paved;
- 2,337 km crushed stone, gravel, or stabilized soil;
- 1,806 km improved earth, 2,500 km unimproved earth (1988)
Liberia
- 10,087 km total;
- 603 km bituminous treated, 2,848 km all weather, 4,313 km dry weather;
- there are also 2,323 km of private, laterite-surfaced roads open to public use, owned by rubber and timber companies
Madagascar
40,000 km total; 4,694 km paved, 811 km crushed stone, gravel, or stabilized soil, 34,495 km improved and unimproved earth (est.)
Malawi
- 13,135 km total;
- 2,364 km paved;
- 251 km crushed stone, gravel, or stabilized soil;
- 10,520 km earth and improved earth
Mali
about 15,700 km total; 1,670 km paved, 3,670 km gravel and improved earth, 10,360 km unimproved earth
Mauritania
- 7,525 km total;
- 1,685 km paved;
- 1,040 km gravel, crushed stone, or otherwise improved;
- 4,800 km unimproved roads, trails, tracks
Morocco
59,198 km total; 27,740 km paved, 31,458 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth, and unimproved earth
Mozambique
- 26,498 km total;
- 4,593 km paved;
- 829 km gravel, crushed stone, stabilized soil;
- 21,076 km unimproved earth
Niger
39,970 km total; 3,170 km bituminous, 10,330 km gravel and laterite, 3,470 km earthen, 23,000 km tracks
Nigeria
- 107,990 km total 30,019 km paved (mostly bituminous-surface treatment);
- 25,411 km laterite, gravel, crushed stone, improved earth;
- 52,560 km unimproved
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- 87 km paved roads, 20 km earth roads on Saint Helena;
- 80 km paved roads on Ascension;
- 2.7 km paved roads on Tristan da Cunha
Sao Tome and Principe
300 km (two-thirds are paved); roads on Principe are mostly unpaved and in need of repair
Sierra Leone
7,400 km total; 1,150 km paved, 490 km laterite (some gravel), remainder improved earth
Somalia
15,215 km total; including 2,335 km paved, 2,880 km gravel, and 10,000 km improved earth or stabilized soil (1983)
Sudan
20,000 km total; 1,600 km bituminous treated, 3,700 km gravel, 2,301 km improved earth, 12,399 km unimproved earth and track
Tanzania
- total 81,900 km, 3,600 km paved;
- 5,600 km gravel or crushed stone;
- remainder improved and unimproved earth
Uganda
- 26,200 km total;
- 1,970 km paved;
- 5,849 km crushed stone, gravel, and laterite;
- remainder earth roads and tracks
Western Sahara
6,200 km total; 1,450 km surfaced, 4,750 km improved and unimproved earth roads and tracks
Zambia
- 36,370 km total;
- 6,500 km paved, 7,000 km crushed stone, gravel, or stabilized soil;
- 22,870 km improved and unimproved earth
Zimbabwe
85,237 km total; 15,800 km paved, 39,090 km crushed stone, gravel,
- stabilized soil:
- 23,097 km improved earth; 7,250 km unimproved earth
Antarctic Region
1 entryArctic Region
2 entriesAsia
23 entriesAfghanistan
21,000 km total (1984); 2,800 km hard surface, 1,650 km bituminous-treated gravel and improved earth, 16,550 km unimproved earth and tracks
British Indian Ocean Territory
short stretch of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
China
- about 1,029,000 km (1990) all types roads;
- 170,000 km (est.) paved roads, 648,000 km (est.) gravel/improved earth roads, 211,000 km (est.) unimproved earth roads and tracks
India
1,970,000 km total (1989); 960,000 km surfaced and 1,010,000 km gravel, crushed stone, or earth
Japan
- 1,111,974 km total;
- 754,102 km paved, 357,872 km gravel, crushed stone, or unpaved;
- 4,400 km national expressways;
- 46,805 km national highways;
- 128,539 km prefectural roads;
- and 930,230 km city, town, and village roads
Korea, North now North Korea
- about 30,000 km (1989);
- 98.5% gravel, crushed stone, or earth surface;
- 1.5% paved
Korea, South now South Korea
62,936 km total (1982); 13,476 km national highway, 49,460 km provincial and local roads
Nepal
- 7,080 km total (1990);
- 2,898 km paved, 1,660 km gravel or crushed stone;
- also 2,522 km of seasonally motorable tracks
Pakistan
101,315 km total (1987); 40,155 km paved, 23,000 km gravel, 29,000 km improved earth, and 9,160 km unimproved earth or sand tracks (1985)
Sri Lanka
- 75,749 km total (1990);
- 27,637 km paved (mostly bituminous treated), 32,887 km crushed stone or gravel, 14,739 km improved earth or unimproved earth;
- several thousand km of mostly unmotorable tracks (1988 est.)
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesBelize
2,710 km total; 500 km paved, 1,600 km gravel, 300 km improved earth, and 310 km unimproved earth
Dominican Republic
12,000 km total; 5,800 km paved, 5,600 km gravel and improved earth, 600 km unimproved
El Salvador
10,000 km total; 1,500 km paved, 4,100 km gravel, 4,400 km improved and unimproved earth
Nicaragua
- 25,930 km total;
- 4,000 km paved, 2,170 km gravel or crushed stone, 5,425 km earth or graded earth, 14,335 km unimproved;
- Pan-American highway 368.5 km
Panama
8,530 km total; 2,745 km paved, 3,270 km gravel or crushed stone, 2,515 km improved and unimproved earth
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- about 1,000 km total;
- 300 km paved;
- 400 km improved;
- 300 km unimproved
Trinidad and Tobago
8,000 km total; 4,000 km paved, 1,000 km improved earth, 3,000 km unimproved earth
Europe
43 entriesAustria
- 95,412 km total;
- 34,612 km are the primary network (including 1,012 km of autobahn, 10,400 km of federal, and 23,200 km of provincial roads);
- of this number, 21,812 km are paved and 12,800 km are unpaved;
- in addition, there are 60,800 km of communal roads (mostly gravel, crushed stone, earth)
Belgium
- 103,396 km total;
- 1,317 km limited access, divided autoroute;
- 11,717 km national highway;
- 1,362 km provincial road;
- about 38,000 km paved and 51,000 km unpaved rural roads
Bulgaria
- 36,908 km total;
- 33,535 km hard surface (including 242 km superhighways);
- 3,373 km earth roads (1987)
Denmark
- 66,482 km total;
- 64,551 km concrete, bitumen, or stone block;
- 1,931 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth
Finland
- about 103,000 km total, including 35,000 km paved (bituminous, concrete, bituminous-treated surface) and 38,000 km unpaved (stabilized gravel, gravel, earth);
- additional 30,000 km of private (state-subsidized) roads
France
- 1,551,400 km total;
- 33,400 km national highway;
- 347,000 km departmental highway;
- 421,000 km community roads;
- 750,000 km rural roads;
- 5,401 km of controlled-access divided autoroutes;
- about 803,000 km paved
Germany
- West - 466,305 km total;
- 169,568 km primary, includes 6,435 km autobahn, 32,460 km national highways (Bundesstrassen), 65,425 km state highways (Landesstrassen), 65,248 km county roads (Kreisstrassen);
- 296,737 km of secondary communal roads (Gemeindestrassen);
- East - 124,604 km total;
- 47,203 km concrete, asphalt, stone block, of which 1,855 km are autobahn and limited access roads, 11,326 are trunk roads, and 34,022 are regional roads;
- 77,401 municipal roads (1988)
Greece
38,938 km total; 16,090 km paved, 13,676 km crushed stone and gravel, 5,632 km improved earth, 3,540 km unimproved earth
Hungary
- 130,014 km total;
- 29,715 km national highway system - 26,834 km asphalt, 142 km concrete, 51 km stone and road brick, 2,276 km macadam, 412 km unpaved;
- 58,495 km country roads (66% unpaved), and 41,804 km (est.) other roads (70% unpaved) (1988)
Italy
- 294,410 km total;
- autostrada (expressway) 5,900 km, state highways 45,170 km, provincial highways 101,680 km, communal highways 141,660 km;
- 260,500 km paved, 26,900 km gravel and crushed stone, 7,010 km earth
Luxembourg
- 5,108 km total;
- 4,995 km paved, 57 km gravel, 56 km earth;
- about 80 km limited access divided highway
Malta
1,291 km total; 1,179 km paved (asphalt), 77 km crushed stone or gravel, 35 km improved and unimproved earth
Netherlands
- 108,360 km total;
- 92,525 km paved (including 2,185 km of limited access, divided highways);
- 15,835 km gravel, crushed stone
Macedonia now North Macedonia
10,591 km total (1991); 5,091 km paved, 1,404 km gravel, 4,096 km earth
Poland
- 299,887 km total;
- 130,000 km improved hard surface (concrete, asphalt, stone block);
- 24,000 km unimproved hard surface (crushed stone, gravel);
- 100,000 km earth;
- 45,887 km other urban roads (1985)
Portugal
- 73,661 km total;
- 61,599 km surfaced (bituminous, gravel, and crushed stone), including 140 km of limited-access divided highway;
- 7,962 km improved earth;
- 4,100 km unimproved earth (motorable tracks)
Romania
- 72,799 km total;
- 35,970 km paved;
- 27,729 km gravel, crushed stone, and other stabilized surfaces;
- 9,100 km unsurfaced roads (1985)
Spain
150,839 km total; 82,513 km national (includes 2,433 km limited-access divided highway, 63,042 km bituminous treated, 17,038 km intermediate bituminous, concrete, or stone block) and 68,326 km provincial or local roads (bituminous treated, intermediate bituminous, or stone block)
Switzerland
62,145 km total (all paved), of which 18,620 km are canton and 1,057 km are national highways (740 km autobahn); 42,468 km are communal roads
United Kingdom
- UK, 362,982 km total;
- Great Britain, 339,483 km paved (including 2,573 km limited-access divided highway);
- Northern Ireland, 23,499 km (22,907 paved, 592 km gravel)
Middle East
17 entriesBahrain
200 km bituminous surfaced, including 25 km bridge-causeway to Saudi Arabia opened in November 1986; NA km natural surface tracks
Iran
- 140,072 km total;
- 42,694 km paved surfaces;
- 46,866 km gravel and crushed stone;
- 49,440 km improved earth;
- 1,200 km (est.) rural road network
Turkey now Turkiye
- 49,615 km total;
- 26,915 km paved;
- 16,500 km gravel or crushed stone;
- 4,000 km improved earth;
- 2,200 km unimproved earth (1985)
West Bank
small road network, Israelis developing east-west axial highways to service new settlements
North America
5 entriesMexico
212,000 km total; 65,000 km paved, 30,000 km semipaved or cobblestone, 62,000 km rural roads (improved earth) or roads under construction, 55,000 km unimproved earth roads
Oceania
25 entriesAustralia
837,872 km total; 243,750 km paved, 228,396 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized soil surface, 365,726 km unimproved earth
Cook Islands
187 km total (1980); 35 km paved, 35 km gravel, 84 km improved earth, 33 km unimproved earth
Fiji
- 3,300 km total (1984) - 1,590 km paved;
- 1,290 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized soil surface;
- 420 unimproved earth
Marshall Islands
paved roads on major islands (Majuro, Kwajalein), otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and tracks
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
39 km of paved roads on major islands; also 187 km stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads
Northern Mariana Islands
381.5 km total (134.5 km first-grade primary, 55 km secondary, 192 km local) (1991)
Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the now Palau
- 22.3 km paved, some stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads (1991)
Papua New Guinea
19,200 km total; 640 km paved, 10,960 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized-soil surface, 7,600 km unimproved earth
Western Samoa now Samoa
- 2,042 km total;
- 375 km sealed;
- remainder mostly gravel, crushed stone, or earth
Solomon Islands
about 2,100 km total (1982); 30 km paved, 290 km gravel, 980 km earth, 800 private logging and plantation roads of varied construction
Tonga
- 198 km sealed road (Tongatapu);
- 74 km (Vava`u);
- 94 km unsealed roads usable only in dry weather
South America
14 entriesArgentina
208,350 km total; 47,550 km paved, 39,500 km gravel, 101,000 km improved earth, 20,300 km unimproved earth
Chile
79,025 km total; 9,913 km paved, 33,140 km gravel, 35,972 km improved and unimproved earth (1984)
Ecuador
28,000 km total; 3,600 km paved, 17,400 km gravel and improved earth, 7,000 km unimproved earth
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)
510 km total; 30 km paved, 80 km gravel, and 400 km unimproved earth
Suriname
- 8,300 km total;
- 500 km paved;
- 5,400 km bauxite gravel, crushed stone, or improved earth;
- 2,400 km sand or clay
Venezuela
77,785 km total; 22,780 km paved, 24,720 km gravel, 14,450 km earth roads, and 15,835 km unimproved earth
Southeast Asia
13 entriesBrunei
1,090 km total; 370 km paved (bituminous treated) and another 52 km under construction, 720 km gravel or unimproved
Burma now Burma (Myanmar)
27,000 km total; 3,200 km bituminous, 17,700 km improved earth or gravel, 6,100 km unimproved earth
Cambodia
- 13,351 km total;
- 2,622 km bituminous;
- 7,105 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth;
- 3,624 km unimproved earth;
- some roads in disrepair
Laos
- about 27,527 km total;
- 1,856 km bituminous or bituminous treated;
- 7,451 km gravel, crushed stone, or improved earth;
- 18,220 km unimproved earth and often impassable during rainy season mid-May to mid-September
Malaysia
- Peninsular Malaysia:
- 23,600 km (19,352 km hard surfaced, mostly bituminous-surface treatment, and 4,248 km unpaved)
- Sabah:
- 3,782 km
- Sarawak:
- 1,644 km
Philippines
- 156,000 km total (1984);
- 29,000 km paved;
- 77,000 km gravel, crushed-stone, or stabilized-soil surface;
- 50,000 km unimproved earth
Taiwan
20,041 km total; 17,095 km bituminous or concrete pavement, 2,371 km crushed stone or gravel, 575 km graded earth
Vietnam
about 85,000 km total; 9,400 km paved, 48,700 km gravel or improved earth, 26,900 km unimproved earth
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