The CIA World Factbook Edition 1997 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 1997 edition carries it in 242 entries, in its Transportation section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2024
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World
1 entryAfrica
57 entriesAlgeria
- total:
- 102,424 km
- paved :
- 70,570 km (including 6,080 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 31,854 km (1995 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total :
- 145,000 km
- paved:
- 2,500 km
- unpaved:
- 142,500 km (1993 est.)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 12,760 km
- paved:
- 1,238 km
- unpaved :
- 11,522 km (1995 est.)
Ghana
- total:
- 37,561 km
- paved:
- 9,353 km (including 21 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 28,208 km (1995 est.)
Mauritius
- total:
- 1,877 km
- paved:
- 1,746 km (including 29 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 131 km (1995 est.)
Morocco
- total :
- 60,513 km
- paved:
- 30,438 km (including 113 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 30,075 km (1995 est.)
Mozambique
- total:
- 29,810 km
- paved:
- 5,545 km
- unpaved :
- 24,265 km (1995 est.)
note: highway traffic impeded by land mines not removed at end of civil war
Nigeria
- total:
- 32,105 km
- paved:
- 26,005 km (including 2,044 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 6,100 km (1994 est.)
note : many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total :
- NA km (mainland 118 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA km)
- paved:
- 180.7 km (mainland 98 km, Ascension 80 km, Tristan da Cunha 2.70 km)
- unpaved:
- NA km (mainland 20 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA km)
South Africa
- total:
- 182,329 km
- paved :
- 55,428 km (including 2,040 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 126,901 km (1991 est.)
Uganda
- total:
- 27,000 km
- paved:
- 1,800 km
- unpaved:
- 25,200 km (of which about 4,800 km are all-weather roads) (1990 est.)
Zambia
- total:
- 37,359 km
- paved:
- 6,575 km (including 56 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 30,784 km (1993 est.)
Antarctic Region
1 entrySouth Georgia and the now South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- total:
- NA km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
Arctic Region
4 entriesAsia
23 entriesBritish Indian Ocean Territory
- total:
- NA km
- paved:
- short stretch of paved road of NA km between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
- unpaved :
- NA km
Georgia
- total:
- 21,000 km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved :
- NA km
note: Georgia reports 19,635 km of "hard surfaced" roads which combine the lengths of paved and graveled roads; 1,365 km of unsurfaced or dirt roads are reported separately (1995 est.)
Japan
- total:
- 1,144,360 km
- paved :
- 846,826 km (including 5,860 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 297,534 km (1995 est.)
Kazakstan now Kazakhstan
- total:
- 158,581 km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved :
- NA km (1994)
note: there are 87,572 km of public roads, maintained by governmental highway maintenance organizations; the rest are privately maintained by industrial organizations; of the total, 107,885 km are either paved or otherwise surfaced for all-weather use
Korea, North now North Korea
- total:
- 23,000 to 30,000 km
- paved :
- 1,725 km
- unpaved:
- 21,275 to 28,275 km (1990 est.)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 74,235 km
- paved:
- 56,419 km (including 1,824 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 17,816 km (1995 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
- total:
- 18,560 km
- paved:
- 16,890 km (including 140 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 1,670 km (1995 est.)
Maldives
- total:
- NA km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km; note - Male has 9.6 km of coral highways within the city (1988 est.)
Mongolia
- total :
- 49,200 km
- paved:
- 1,120 km
- unpaved:
- 48,080 km (1995 est.)
note: much of the unpaved rural road system consists of rough cross-country tracks
Russia
- total :
- 948,000 km (including 416,000 km which serve specific industries or farms and are not maintained by governmental highway maintenance departments)
- paved:
- 336,000 km
- unpaved:
- 612,000 km (including 411,000 km of graveled or other forms of macadam surface and 201,000 km of unstabilized earth) (1995 est.)
Tajikistan
- total:
- 32,752 km
- paved:
- 21,119 km (note - these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
- unpaved:
- 11,633 km (1992 est.)
Turkmenistan
- total:
- 23,000 km
- paved:
- 18,300 km (note - these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced
- unpaved:
- 4,700 km (1990 est.)
Uzbekistan
- total:
- 80,000 km
- paved :
- 69,760 km (note - these roads are said to be hard surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
- unpaved:
- 10,240 km dirt (1995 est.)
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesAruba
- total:
- NA km
- paved :
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
note : most coastal roads are paved, while unpaved roads serve large tracts of the interior
El Salvador
- total:
- 12,320 km
- paved:
- 1,712 km (including 110 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 10,608 km (1995 est.)
Guadeloupe
- total :
- 2,082 km (national 329 km, regional 582 km, community/local 1171 km)
- paved:
- 1,742 km
- unpaved:
- 340 km (1985 est.)
note: in 1996 there were 3,200 km of roads
Guatemala
- total:
- 12,795 km
- paved:
- 3,519 km (including 135 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 9,276 km (1995 est.)
Europe
46 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 142,563 km
- paved:
- 142,563 km (including 1,667 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1995 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total :
- 21,168 km
- paved:
- 11,436 km
- unpaved:
- 9,732 km (1991 est.)
note: roads need maintenance and repair
Bulgaria
- total:
- 36,777 km
- paved:
- 33,798 km (including 314 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 2,979 km (1995 est.)
Croatia
- total:
- 26,929 km
- paved:
- 21,947 km (including 302 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 4,982 km (1995 est.)
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 124,770 km
- paved:
- 16,719 km (including 414 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 108,051 km (1995 est.)
Denmark
- total :
- 71,420 km
- paved:
- 71,420 km (including 830 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1995 est.)
Estonia
- total:
- 14,992 km
- paved:
- 8,096 km (including 65 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 6,896 km (1995 est.)
Finland
- total:
- 77,722 km
- paved:
- 48,965 km (including 394 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 28,757 km (1995 est.)
France
- total:
- 1,512,700 km
- paved :
- 812,700 km (including 9,140 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 700,000 km (1995 est.)
Germany
- total:
- 639,800 km
- paved:
- 504,800 km (including 11,013 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 135,000 km all-weather, graveled (1993 est.)
Greece
- total :
- 116,440 km
- paved:
- 106,775 km (including 420 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,665 km (1995 est.)
Hungary
- total:
- 158,633 km
- paved:
- 69,957 km (including 378 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 88,676 km (1995 est.)
Ireland
- total:
- 92,430 km
- paved :
- 86,884 km (including 70 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 5,546 km (1995 est.)
Italy
- total:
- 305,388 km
- paved:
- 305,388 km (including 6,301 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1991 est.)
Lithuania
- total :
- 61,442 km
- paved:
- 53,086 km (including 394 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,356 km (1995 est.)
Luxembourg
- total :
- 5,137 km
- paved:
- 5,086 km (including 123 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 51 km (1995 est.)
Netherlands
- total:
- 120,800 km
- paved:
- 108,720 km (including 2,300 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 12,080 km (1995 est.)
Macedonia, now North Macedonia
- total:
- 8,532 km
- paved:
- 5,401 km (including 133 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 3,131 km (1995 est.)
Poland
- total:
- 372,479 km
- paved :
- 243,229 km (including 257 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 129,250 km (1995 est.)
Portugal
- total:
- 68,732 km
- paved:
- 59,110 km (including 587 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,622 km (1995 est.)
Romania
- total :
- 153,170 km
- paved:
- 78,117 km (including 113 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 75,053 km (1995 est.)
Slovakia
- total:
- 17,868 km
- paved:
- 17,654 km (including 198 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 214 km (1995 est.)
Slovenia
- total:
- 14,760 km
- paved:
- 11,808 km (including 218 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,952 km (1995 est.)
Spain
- total:
- 343,197 km
- paved:
- 339,765 km (including 7,747 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 3,432 km (1995 est.)
Sweden
- total:
- 136,233 km
- paved:
- 103,537 km (including 1,231 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 32,696 km (1995 est.)
Switzerland
- total:
- 71,055 km (including 1,540 km of expressways)
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km (1995 est.)
Ukraine
- total:
- 172,257 km
- paved:
- 163,300 km (including 1,875 km of expressways);
- note - these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced
- unpaved:
- 8,957 km (1995 est.)
United Kingdom
- total:
- 388,831 km (1994 est.)
- paved:
- NA km (including 3,284 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- NA km
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
- total:
- Greek area: 10,150 km; Turkish area: 2,350 km
- paved :
- Greek area: 5,781 km; Turkish area: 1,370 km
- unpaved:
- Greek area: 4,369 km; Turkish area: 980 km
Iran
- total :
- 158,000 km
- paved:
- 93,378 km (including 460 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 64,622 km (1995 est.)
Syria
- total:
- 39,243 km
- paved :
- 27,862 km (including 850 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 11,381 km (1995 est.)
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 381,300 km
- paved :
- 87,699 km (including 1,246 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 293,601 km (1995 est.)
West Bank
- total:
- NA km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
note: small road network; Israelis have developed many highways to service Jewish settlements
North America
5 entriesBermuda
- total :
- 225 km
- paved:
- 225 km
- unpaved :
- 0 km (1997 est.)
note: in addition, there are 400 km of paved and unpaved roads that are privately owned
Canada
- total:
- 1.021 million km
- paved:
- 358,371 km (including 19,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 662,629 km (1995 est.)
Mexico
- total :
- 249,520 km
- paved:
- 93,071 km (including 5,920 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 156,449 km (1995 est.)
United States
- total :
- 6,261,154 km
- paved:
- 3,759,516 km (including 88,500 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,501,638 km (1995 est.)
Oceania
28 entriesAustralia
- total :
- 895,030 km
- paved:
- 345,482 km (including 1,330 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 549,548 km (1995 est.)
Marshall Islands
- total :
- NA km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
note: 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
- total:
- 235 km
- paved:
- 41 km
- unpaved:
- 194 km (1995 est.)
New Zealand
- total:
- 92,306 km
- paved:
- 53,537 km (including 144 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 38,769 km (1993 est.)
Palmyra Atoll
much of the road and many causeways built during World War II are unserviceable and overgrown
Solomon Islands
- total :
- 2,100 km
- paved:
- 32 km
- unpaved:
- 2,068 km (includes about 800 km of private plantation roads) (1995 est.)
Wallis and Futuna
- total:
- 120 km (Ile Uvea 100 km, Ile Futuna 20 km)
- paved:
- 16 km (all on Ile Uvea)
- unpaved:
- 104 km (Ile Uvea 84 km, Ile Futuna 20 km)
South America
14 entriesArgentina
- total :
- 216,100 km
- paved:
- 61,589 km (including 600 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 154,511 km (1995 est.)
Bolivia
- total:
- 55,487 km
- paved:
- 2,663 km (including 27 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 52,824 km (1995 est.)
French Guiana
- total:
- 1,817 km (national 432 km, departmental 385 km, community 1,000 km)
- paved:
- 727 km
- unpaved:
- 1,090 km (1995 est.)
Southeast Asia
15 entriesMalaysia
- total:
- 93,975 km
- paved:
- 70,481 km (including 575 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 23,494 km (1995 est.)
Philippines
- total:
- 182,000 km (1994 est.)
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
note : probably less than 30,000 km are designated arterial roads and not all of these are all-weather roads
Singapore
- total:
- 2,972 km
- paved:
- 2,892 km (including 132 km of expressways)
- unpaved :
- 80 km (1995 est.)
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 1997, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/1997.