The CIA World Factbook Edition 2000 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2000 edition carries it in 239 entries, in its Transportation section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2024
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World
1 entryAfrica
57 entriesAlgeria
- total:
- 104,000 km
- paved:
- 71,656 km (including 640 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 32,344 km (1996 est.)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 157,000 km
- paved:
- NA km (including 30 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- NA km (1996 est.)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 12,800 km
- paved:
- 1,242 km
- unpaved:
- 11,558 km (1996 est.)
Ghana
- total:
- 39,409 km
- paved:
- 11,653 km (including 30 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 27,756 km (1997 est.)
Liberia
- total:
- 10,600 km (there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance)
- paved:
- 657 km
- unpaved:
- 9,943 km (1996 est.)
Morocco
- total:
- 57,847 km
- paved:
- 30,254 km (including 327 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 27,593 km (1998 est.)
Nigeria
- total:
- 194,394 km
- paved:
- 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 134,326 km (1998 est.)
note: many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled; because of poor maintenance and years of heavy freight traffic (in part the result of the failure of the railroad system), much of the road system is barely usable
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total:
- NA km (Saint Helena 118 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA km)
- paved:
- 180.7 km (Saint Helena 98 km, Ascension 80 km, Tristan da Cunha 2.70 km)
- unpaved:
- NA km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA km)
South Africa
- total:
- 534,131 km
- paved:
- 63,027 km (including 2,032 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 471,104 km (1998 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.)
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
23 entriesArmenia
- total:
- 15,998 km
- paved:
- 15,998 km (including 7,567 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1998 est.)
British 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
China
- total:
- 1.21 million km
- paved:
- 271,300 km (with at least 24,474 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 938,700 km (1998 est.)
Japan
- total:
- 1,152,207 km
- paved:
- 863,003 km (including 6,114 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 289,204 km (1997 est.)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 86,990 km
- paved:
- 64,808 km (including 1,996 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 22,182 km (1998 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
- total:
- 18,500 km
- paved:
- 16,854 km (including 140 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,646 km (1996 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:
- 49,250 km
- paved:
- 1,674 km
- unpaved:
- 47,576 km (1998 est.)
note: much of the unpaved rural road system consists of rough cross-country tracks
Pakistan
- total:
- 247,811 km
- paved:
- 141,252 km (including 339 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 106,559 km (1998 est.)
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 some other form of surfacing and 201,000 km of unstabilized earth) (1995 est.)
Tajikistan
- total:
- 13,700 km
- paved:
- 11,330 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
- unpaved:
- 2,370 km (1996 est.)
Turkmenistan
- total:
- 24,000 km
- paved:
- 19,488 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
- unpaved:
- 4,512 km (1996 est.)
Uzbekistan
- total:
- 81,600 km
- paved:
- 71,237 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel-surfaced)
- unpaved:
- 10,363 km (dirt) (1996 est.)
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesAruba
- total:
- 800 km
- paved:
- 513 km
- unpaved:
- 287 km
note: most coastal roads are paved, while unpaved roads serve large tracts of the interior (1995 est.)
Cuba
- total:
- 60,858 km
- paved:
- 29,820 km (including 638 km of expressway)
- unpaved:
- 31,038 km (1997 est.)
El Salvador
- total:
- 10,029 km
- paved:
- 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,043 km (1997 est.)
Guadeloupe
- total:
- 2,082 km
- paved:
- 1,742 km
- unpaved:
- 340 km (1985 est.)
note: in 1996 there were a total of 3,200 km of roads
Guatemala
- total:
- 13,100 km
- paved:
- 3,616 km (including 140 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,484 km (1996 est.)
Panama
- total:
- 11,258 km
- paved:
- 3,783 km (including 30 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 7,475 km (1999 est.)
Europe
46 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 145,850 km
- paved:
- 117,701 km (including 1,682 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 28,149 km (1998)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 21,846 km
- paved:
- 11,425 km
- unpaved:
- 10,421 km (1996 est.)
note: roads need maintenance and repair
Bulgaria
- total:
- 36,759 km
- paved:
- 33,818 km (including 319 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,941 km (1998 est.)
Croatia
- total:
- 27,840 km
- paved:
- 23,497 km (including 330 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 4,343 km (1998 est.)
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 127,693 km
- paved:
- 127,693 km (including 498 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1998 est.)
Estonia
- total:
- 49,480 km
- paved:
- 10,935 km (including 75 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 38,545 km (1998 est.)
Finland
- total:
- 77,895 km
- paved:
- 49,853 km (including 473 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 28,042 km (1998 est.)
France
- total:
- 893,300 km
- paved:
- 893,300 km (including 10,300 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1998 est.)
Germany
- total:
- 656,140 km
- paved:
- 650,891 km (including 11,400 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 5,249 km (all-weather) (1998 est.)
Greece
- total:
- 117,000 km
- paved:
- 107,406 km (including 470 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,594 km (1996 est.)
Hungary
- total:
- 188,203 km
- paved:
- 81,680 km (including 438 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 106,523 km (1998 est.)
Ireland
- total:
- 92,500 km
- paved:
- 87,043 km (including 115 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 5,457 km (1999 est.)
Italy
- total:
- 654,676 km
- paved:
- 654,676 km (including 6,957 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1998 est.)
Lithuania
- total:
- 71,375 km
- paved:
- 64,951 km (including 417 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 6,424 km (1998 est.)
Luxembourg
- total:
- 5,166 km
- paved:
- 5,166 km (including 118 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1998 est.)
Netherlands
- total:
- 125,575 km
- paved:
- 113,018 km (including 2,235 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 12,557 km (1998 est.)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of now North Macedonia
- total:
- 8,684 km
- paved:
- 5,540 km (including 133 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 3,144 km (1997 est.)
Norway
- total:
- 90,741 km
- paved:
- 67,602 km (including 128 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 23,139 km (1998 est.)
Poland
- total:
- 381,046 km
- paved:
- 249,966 km (including 268 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 131,080 km (1998 est.)
Portugal
- total:
- 68,732 km
- paved:
- 59,110 km (including 797 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,622 km (1999 est.)
Romania
- total:
- 153,359 km
- paved:
- 103,671 km (including 133 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 49,688 km (1998 est.)
Serbia and Montenegro
- total:
- 48,603 km
- paved:
- 28,822 km (including 560 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 19,781 km (1998 est.)
note: because of the 1999 Kosovo conflict, many road bridges were destroyed; since the end of the conflict in June 1999, Serbia has had a rapid reconstruction program to either reconstruct bridges or build by-pass routes
Slovakia
- total:
- 17,710 km
- paved:
- 17,533 km (including 288 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 177 km (1998 est.)
Slovenia
- total:
- 19,586 km
- paved:
- 17,745 km (including 249 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,841 km (1998 est.)
Spain
- total:
- 346,858 km
- paved:
- 343,389 km (including 9,063 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 3,469 km (1997 est.)
Sweden
- total:
- 210,907 km
- paved:
- 163,453 km (including 1,439 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 47,454 km (1998 est.)
Switzerland
- total:
- 71,059 km (including 1,638 km of expressways) (1998 est.)
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
Ukraine
- total:
- 176,310 km
- paved:
- 170,139 km (including 1,770 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:
- 6,171 km (1998 est.)
United Kingdom
- total:
- 371,603 km
- paved:
- 371,603 km (including 3,303 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1998 est.)
Middle East
17 entriesBahrain
- total:
- 3,164 km
- paved:
- 2,433 km
- unpaved:
- 731 km (1998 est.)
note: there is a paved causeway connecting Bahrain to Saudi Arabia
Cyprus
- total:
- Greek Cypriot area: 10,663 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 2,350 km (1996 est.)
- paved:
- Greek Cypriot area: 6,249 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 1,370 km (1996 est.)
- unpaved:
- Greek Cypriot area: 4,414 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 980 km (1996 est.)
Iran
- total:
- 140,200 km
- paved:
- 49,440 km (including 470 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 90,760 km (1998 est.)
Oman
- total:
- 32,800 km
- paved:
- 9,840 km (including 550 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 22,960 km (1996 est.)
Syria
- total:
- 36,377 km
- paved:
- 26,299 km (including 877 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 10,078 km (1999 est.)
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 382,397 km
- paved:
- 95,599 km (including 1,726 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 286,798 km (1999 est.)
West Bank
- total:
- 4,500 km
- paved:
- 2,700 km
- unpaved:
- 1,800 km (1997 est.)
note: 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 232 km of paved and unpaved roads that are privately owned
Canada
- total:
- 901,902 km
- paved:
- 318,371 km (including 16,571 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 583,531 km (1999 est.)
Mexico
- total:
- 323,977 km
- paved:
- 96,221 km (including 6,335 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 227,756 km (1997 est.)
United States
- total:
- 6,348,227 km
- paved:
- 3,732,757 km (including 88,727 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,615,470 km (1997 est.)
Oceania
27 entriesAustralia
- total:
- 913,000 km
- paved:
- 353,331 km (including 13,630 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 559,669 km (1996 est.)
Guam
- total:
- 885 km
- paved:
- 675 km
- unpaved:
- 210 km
note: there is another 685 km of roads classified non-public, including roads located on federal government installations
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:
- 240 km
- paved:
- 42 km
- unpaved:
- 198 km (1996 est.)
New Zealand
- total:
- 92,200 km
- paved:
- 53,568 km (including at least 144 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 38,632 km (1996 est.)
Palmyra Atoll
much of the road and many causeways built during World War II are unserviceable and overgrown
Solomon Islands
- total:
- 1,360 km
- paved:
- 34 km
- unpaved:
- 1,326 km (includes about 800 km of private plantation roads) (1996 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 entriesSoutheast Asia
15 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2000, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2000.