The CIA World Factbook Edition 1993 Communications

Roadways In 35 editions of 36.

Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 1993 edition carries it in 232 entries, in its Communications section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

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the first edition with it
1990
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2024

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Africa

56 entries

Algeria

90,031 km total; 58,868 km concrete or bituminous, 31,163 km gravel, crushed stone, unimproved earth (1990)

Angola

73,828 km total; 8,577 km bituminous-surface treatment, 29,350 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth, remainder unimproved earth

Benin

5,050 km total; 920 km paved, 2,600 laterite, 1,530 km improved 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

Chad

  • 31,322 km total;
  • 32 km bituminous;
  • 7,300 km gravel and laterite;
  • remainder unimproved earth

Comoros

750 km total; about 210 km bituminous, remainder crushed stone or gravel

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

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

Djibouti

  • 2,900 km total; 280 km paved; 2,620 km improved or unimproved earth (1982)

Egypt

51,925 km total; 17,900 km paved, 2,500 km gravel, 13,500 km improved earth, 18,025 km unimproved earth

Equatorial Guinea

Rio Muni - 2,460 km; Bioko - 300 km

Eritrea

3,845 km total; 807 km paved, 840 km gravel, 402 km improved earth, 1,796 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

39,150 km total; 2,776 km paved, 7,504 km gravel, 2,054 km improved earth, 26,816 km unimproved earth (1993 est.)

Gabon

7,500 km total; 560 km paved, 960 km laterite, 5,980 km earth

The Gambia

3,083 km total; 431 km paved, 501 km gravel/laterite, and 2,151 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)

Guinea-Bissau

3,218 km; 2,698 km bituminous, remainder earth

Kenya

64,590 km total; 7,000 km paved, 4,150 km gravel, remainder improved earth

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

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

Libya

19,300 km total; 10,800 km bituminous/bituminous treated, 8,500 km crushed stone or earth

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

Mauritius

1,800 km total; 1,640 km paved, 160 km earth

Mayotte

42 km total; 18 km bituminous

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

Namibia

54,500 km; 4,079 km paved, 2,540 km gravel, 47,881 km earth roads and tracks

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

Reunion

2,800 km total; 2,200 km paved, 600 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized earth

Rwanda

4,885 km total; 460 km paved, 1,725 km gravel and/or improved earth, 2,700 km unimproved

Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha

  • 87 km paved roads and 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

Senegal

14,007 km total; 3,777 km paved, 10,230 km laterite or improved earth

Seychelles

260 km total; 160 km paved, 100 km crushed stone or earth

Sierra Leone

7,400 km total; 1,150 km paved, 490 km laterite (some gravel), 5,760 km improved earth

Somalia

22,500 km total; including 2,700 km paved, 3,000 km gravel, and 16,800 km improved earth or stabilized soil (1992)

South Africa

188,309 km total; 54,013 km paved, 134,296 km crushed stone, gravel, or improved earth

Sudan

20,703 km total; 2,000 km bituminous treated, 4,000 km gravel, 2,304 km improved earth, 12,399 km unimproved earth and track

Tanzania

  • 81,900 km total, 3,600 km paved;
  • 5,600 km gravel or crushed stone;
  • 72,700 km improved and unimproved earth

Togo

  • 6,462 km total;
  • 1,762 km paved;
  • 4,700 km unimproved roads

Tunisia

  • 17,700 km total;
  • 9,100 km bituminous;
  • 8,600 km 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 entry

Arctic Region

2 entries

Greenland

80 km

Iceland

11,543 km total; 2,690 km hard surfaced, 8,853 km gravel and earth

Asia

23 entries

Afghanistan

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

Armenia

  • 11,300 km total; 10,500 km hard surfaced, 800 km earth (1990)

Azerbaijan

  • 36,700 km total (1990);
  • 31,800 km hard surfaced;
  • 4,900 km earth

Bangladesh

7,240 km total (1985); 3,840 km paved, 3,400 km unpaved

Bhutan

2,165 km total; 1,703 km surfaced

British Indian Ocean Territory

short stretch of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia

China

about 1,029,000 km (1990) total; 170,000 km (est.) paved roads, 648,000 km (est.) gravel/improved earth roads, 211,000 km (est.) unimproved earth roads and tracks

Georgia

  • 33,900 km total; 29,500 km hard surfaced, 4,400 km earth (1990)

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, 6,400 km other

Kazakhstan

189,000 km total; 108,100 km hard surfaced (paved or gravel), 80,900 km earth (1990)

Korea, North now North Korea

  • about 30,000 km (1991);
  • 92.5% gravel, crushed stone, or earth surface;
  • 7.5% paved

Korea, South now South Korea

63,201 km total (1991); 1,551 expressways, 12,190 km national highway, 49,460 km provincial and local roads

Kyrgyzstan

  • 30,300 km total; 22,600 km paved or graveled, 7,700 km earth(1990)

Maldives

Male has 9.6 km of coral highways within the city

Mongolia

  • 46,700 km total; 1,000 km hard surface; 45,700 km other surfaces (1988)

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)

Russia

  • 893,000 km total, of which 677,000 km are paved or gravelled and 216,000 km are dirt;
  • 456,000 km are for general use and are maintained by the Russian Highway Corporation (formerly Russian Highway Ministry);
  • the 437,000 km not in general use are the responsibility of various other organizations (formerly ministries);
  • of the 456,000 km in general use, 265,000 km are paved, 140,000 km are gravelled, and 51,000 km are dirt;
  • of the 437,000 km not in general use, 272,000 km are paved or gravelled and 165,000 are dirt (31 December 1991)

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.)

Tajikistan

29,900 km total (1990); 21,400 km hard surfaced, 8,500 km earth

Turkmenistan

  • 23,000 km total; 18,300 km hard surfaced, 4,700 km earth (1990)

Uzbekistan

  • 78,400 km total; 67,000 km hard-surfaced, 11,400 km earth (1990)

Central America and the Caribbean

31 entries

Anguilla

60 km surfaced

Antigua and Barbuda

240 km

Aruba

NA km all-weather highways

The Bahamas

2,400 km total; 1,350 km paved, 1,050 km gravel

Barbados

1,570 km total; 1,475 km paved, 95 km gravel and earth

Belize

2,710 km total; 500 km paved, 1,600 km gravel, 300 km improved earth, and 310 km unimproved earth

British Virgin Islands

106 km motorable roads (1983)

Cayman Islands

160 km of main roads

Costa Rica

15,400 km total; 7,030 km paved, 7,010 km gravel, 1,360 km unimproved earth

Cuba

26,477 km total; 14,477 km paved, 12,000 km gravel and earth surfaced (1989 est.)

Dominica

750 km total; 370 km paved, 380 km gravel and 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

Grenada

  • 1,000 km total;
  • 600 km paved, 300 km otherwise improved;
  • 100 km unimproved

Guadeloupe

1,940 km total; 1,600 km paved, 340 km gravel and earth

Guatemala

26,429 km total; 2,868 km paved, 11,421 km gravel, and 12,140 unimproved

Haiti

4,000 km total; 950 km paved, 900 km otherwise improved, 2,150 km unimproved

Honduras

8,950 km total; 1,700 km paved, 5,000 km otherwise improved, 2,250 km unimproved earth

Jamaica

18,200 km total; 12,600 km paved, 3,200 km gravel, 2,400 km improved earth

Martinique

1,680 km total; 1,300 km paved, 380 km gravel and earth

Montserrat

280 km total; about 200 km paved, 80 km gravel and earth

Netherlands Antilles

950 km total; 300 km paved, 650 km gravel and 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

Puerto Rico

13,762 km paved (1982)

Saint Kitts and Nevis

300 km total; 125 km paved, 125 km otherwise improved, 50 km unimproved earth

Saint Lucia

  • 760 km total;
  • 500 km paved;
  • 260 km otherwise improved

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

  • 1,000 km total;
  • 300 km paved;
  • 400 km improved;
  • 300 km unimproved (est.)

Trinidad and Tobago

8,000 km total; 4,000 km paved, 1,000 km improved earth, 3,000 km unimproved earth

Turks and Caicos Islands

121 km, including 24 km tarmac

Virgin Islands

856 km total

Europe

44 entries

Albania

16,700 km total; 6,700 km highways, 10,000 km forest and agricultural cart roads (1990)

Andorra

96 km

Austria

  • 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)

Belarus

  • 98,200 km total; 66,100 km hard surfaced, 32,100 km earth (1990)

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

Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • 21,168 km total (1991);
  • 11,436 km paved, 8,146 km gravel, 1,586 km earth;
  • note - highways now disrupted

Bulgaria

  • 36,908 km total;
  • 33,535 km hard surface (including 242 km superhighways);
  • 3,373 km earth roads (1987)

Croatia

  • 32,071 km total;
  • 23,305 km paved, 8,439 km gravel, 327 km earth (1990);
  • note - key highways note disrupted because of territorial dispute

Czech Republic now Czechia

55,890 km total (1988)

Denmark

  • 66,482 km total;
  • 64,551 km concrete, bitumen, or stone block;
  • 1,931 km gravel, crushed stone, improved earth

Estonia

  • 30,300 km total (1990);
  • 29,200 km hard surfaced;
  • 1,100 km earth

Faroe Islands

200 km

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

western:
  • 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)
eastern:
  • 124,604 km total;
  • 47,203 km concrete, asphalt, stone block, of which 1,855 km are autobahn and limited access roads, 11,326 km are trunk roads, and 34,022 km are regional roads;
  • 77,401 km municipal roads (1988)

Gibraltar

50 km, mostly good bitumen and concrete

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

Holy See (Vatican City)

none; all city streets

Hungary

  • 130,218 km total;
  • 29,919 km national highway system (27,212 km asphalt, 126 km concrete, 50 km stone and road brick, 2,131 km macadam, 400 km unpaved);
  • 58,495 km country roads (66% unpaved), and 41,804 km other roads (70% unpaved) (1988)

Ireland

92,294 km total; 87,422 km paved, 4,872 km gravel or crushed stone

Man, Isle of now Isle of Man

640 km motorable roads

Italy

  • 298,000 km total;
  • autostrada (expressway) 6,000 km, state highways 46,000 km, provincial highways 103,000 km, communal highways 143,000 km;
  • 270,000 km paved, 23,000 km gravel and crushed stone, 5,000 km earth

Latvia

  • 59,500 km total; 33,000 km hard surfaced 26,500 km earth (1990)

Liechtenstein

130.66 km main roads, 192.27 km byroads

Lithuania

  • 44,200 km total 35,500 km hard surfaced, 8,700 km earth (1990)

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

Moldova

  • 20,000 km total; 13,900 km hard-surfaced, 6,100 km earth (1990)

Monaco

none; city streets

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

Norway

  • 79,540 km total;
  • 38,580 km paved;
  • 40,960 km gravel, crushed stone, and earth

Poland

  • 360,629 km total (excluding farm, factory and forest roads);
  • 220 km limited access expressways, 45,257 km main highways, 128,775 km regional roads, 186,377 urban or village roads (local traffic);
  • 220,000 km are paved (including all main and regional highways) (1988)

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)

San Marino

104 km

Serbia and Montenegro

46,019 km total (1990); 26,949 km paved, 10,373 km gravel, 8,697 km earth

Slovakia

17,650 km total (1990)

Slovenia

14,553 km total; 10,525 km paved, 4,028 km gravel

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)

Sweden

97,400 km total; 51,899 km paved, 20,659 km gravel, 24,842 km unimproved earth

Switzerland

62,145 km total (all paved); 18,620 km are canton, 1,057 km are national highways (740 km autobahn), 42,468 km are communal roads

Ukraine

273,700 km total (1990); 236,400 km hard surfaced, 37,300 km earth

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 entries

Bahrain

200 km bituminous surfaced, including 25 km bridge-causeway to Saudi Arabia opened in November 1986; NA km natural surface tracks

Cyprus

  • 10,780 km total;
  • 5,170 km paved;
  • 5,610 km gravel, crushed stone, and earth

Gaza Strip

small, poorly developed indigenous road network

Iran

  • 140,200 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

Iraq

34,700 km total; 17,500 km paved, 5,500 km improved earth, 11,700 km unimproved earth

Israel

4,750 km; majority is bituminous surfaced

Jordan

7,500 km; 5,500 km asphalt, 2,000 km gravel and crushed stone

Kuwait

  • 3,900 km total;
  • 3,000 km bituminous;
  • 900 km earth, sand, light gravel

Lebanon

7,300 km total; 6,200 km paved, 450 km gravel and crushed stone, 650 km improved earth

Oman

26,000 km total; 6,000 km paved, 20,000 km motorable track

Qatar

1,500 km total; 1,000 km paved, 500 km gravel or natural surface (est.)

Saudi Arabia

74,000 km total; 35,000 km paved, 39,000 km gravel and improved earth

Syria

  • 29,000 km total;
  • 670 km expressways;
  • 5,000 km main or national roads;
  • 23,330 km secondary or regional roads (not including municipal roads);
  • 22,680 km of the total is paved (1988)

Turkey now Turkiye

  • 320,611 km total;
  • 138 km limited access expressways, 31,062 km national (main) roads, 27,853 km regional (secondary) roads, 261,558 km local and municipal roads;
  • 45,526 km of hard surfaced roads (of which about 27,000 km are paved and about 18,500 km are surfaced with gravel or crushed stone) (1988 est.)

United Arab Emirates

2,000 km total; 1,800 km bituminous, 200 km gravel and graded earth

West Bank

small road network, Israelis developing east-west axial highways to service new settlements

Yemen

15,500 km total; 4,000 km paved, 11,500 km natural surface (est.)

North America

5 entries

Bermuda

210 km public roads, all paved (about 400 km of private roads)

Canada

884,272 km total; 712,936 km surfaced (250,023 km paved), 171,336 km earth

Mexico

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

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

  • 120 km total; 60 km paved (1985)

United States

  • 7,599,250 km total;
  • 6,230,000 km state-financed roads;
  • 1,369,250 km federally-financed roads (including 71,825 km interstate limited access freeways) (1988)

Oceania

25 entries

American Samoa

350 km total; 150 km paved, 200 km unpaved

Australia

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;
  • 1,590 km paved;
  • 1,290 km gravel, crushed stone, or stabilized soil surface;
  • 420 unimproved earth (1984)

French Polynesia

600 km (1982)

Guam

674 km all-weather roads

Kiribati

640 km of motorable roads

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

Midway Islands

32 km total

Nauru

about 27 km total; 21 km paved, 6 km improved earth

New Caledonia

  • 6,340 km total; only about 10% paved (1987)

New Zealand

92,648 km total; 49,547 km paved, 43,101 km gravel or crushed stone

Niue

123 km all-weather roads, 106 km access and plantation roads

Norfolk Island

80 km of roads, including 53 km paved; remainder are earth formed or coral surfaced

Northern Mariana Islands

  • 381.5 km total; 134.5 km primary, 55 km secondary, 192 km local (1991)

Pacific Islands, Trust Territory of the (Palau) 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

Pitcairn Islands

6.4 km dirt roads

Western Samoa now Samoa

  • 2,042 km total;
  • 375 km sealed;
  • 1,667 km 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

Tuvalu

8 km gravel

Vanuatu

1,027 km total; at least 240 km sealed or all-weather roads

Wallis and Futuna

100 km on Ile Uvea, 16 km sealed; 20 km earth surface on Ile Futuna

South America

14 entries

Argentina

208,350 km total; 47,550 km paved, 39,500 km gravel, 101,000 km improved earth, 20,300 km unimproved earth

Bolivia

38,836 km total; 1,300 km paved, 6,700 km gravel, 30,836 km improved and unimproved earth

Brazil

1,448,000 km total; 48,000 km paved, 1,400,000 km gravel or earth

Chile

79,025 km total; 9,913 km paved, 33,140 km gravel, 35,972 km improved and unimproved earth (1984)

Colombia

75,450 km total; 9,350 km paved, 66,100 km earth and gravel surfaces

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

French Guiana

680 km total; 510 km paved, 170 km improved and unimproved earth

Guyana

7,665 km total; 550 km paved, 5,000 km gravel, 1,525 km earth, 590 km unimproved

Paraguay

21,960 km total; 1,788 km paved, 474 km gravel, and 19,698 km earth

Peru

69,942 km total; 7,459 km paved, 13,538 km improved, 48,945 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

Uruguay

49,900 km total; 6,700 km paved, 3,000 km gravel, 40,200 km earth

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

14 entries

Brunei

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

Christmas Island

adequate road system

Hong Kong

1,100 km total; 794 km paved, 306 km gravel, crushed stone, or earth

Indonesia

119,500 km total; 11,812 km state, 34,180 km provincial, and 73,508 km district roads

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

Macau

42 km paved

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

  • 157,450 km total (1988);
  • 22,400 km paved;
  • 85,050 km gravel, crushed-stone, or stabilized-soil surface;
  • 50,000 km unimproved earth

Singapore

2,644 km total (1985)

Taiwan

20,041 km total; 17,095 km bituminous or concrete pavement, 2,371 km crushed stone or gravel, 575 km graded earth

Thailand

77,697 km total; 35,855 km paved (including 88 km expressways), 14,092 km gravel or other stabilization, 27,750 km mostly dirt and other (1988)

Vietnam

85,000 km total; 9,400 km paved, 48,700 km gravel or improved earth, 26,900 km unimproved earth (est.)

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1993, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/1993.

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