The CIA World Factbook Edition 2002 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2002 edition carries it in 240 entries, in its Transportation section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
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- 1990
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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.)
Chad
- total:
- 33,400 km
- paved:
- 450 km
note: probably no more than 8,000 km of the total receive maintenance, the remainder being desert tracks (2000)
- unpaved:
- 32,950 km
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 157,000 km (including 30 km of expressways)(1996)
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 12,800 km
- paved:
- 1,242 km
- unpaved:
- 11,558 km (1996)
Liberia
- total:
- 10,600 km
- paved:
- 657 km
- unpaved:
- 9,943 km
note: there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance (1996 est.)
Libya
- total:
- 24,484 km
- paved:
- 6,798 km
- unpaved:
- 17,686 km
note: data for the length of unpaved roads include the assumption that because they were listed as secondary roads, they are unpaved; some may be paved and some part of the primary roads may not be paved (1996)
Nigeria
- total:
- 193,200 km
- paved:
- 59,892 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
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 (2001)
- unpaved:
- 133,308 km
Reunion
- total:
- 2,724 km
- paved:
- 1,300 km (including 73 km of four-lane road)
note: 370 km of road are maintained by national authorities, 754 km by departmental authorities and 1,600 km by local authorities (1994)
- unpaved:
- 1,424 km
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total:
- 158 km (Saint Helena 118 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 0 km)
- paved:
- 138 km (Saint Helena 98km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 0 km)
- unpaved:
- 20 km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension 0 km, Tristan da Cunha 0 km)
South Africa
- total:
- 358,596 km
- paved:
- 59,753 km (including 1,927 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 298,843 km (1996)
Uganda
- total:
- 27,000 km
- paved:
- 1,800 km
- unpaved:
- 25,200 km (of which about 4,200 km are all-weather roads) (1990)
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
23 entriesArmenia
- total:
- 11,300 km
- paved:
- 10,500 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 800 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Azerbaijan
- total:
- 36,700 km
- paved:
- 31,800 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 4,900 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
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:
- 1.4 million km
- paved:
- 271,300 km (with at least 16,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,128,700 km (1999)
Georgia
- total:
- 33,900 km
- paved:
- 29,500 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 4,400 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Japan
- total:
- 1,152,207 km
- paved:
- 863,003 km (including 6,114 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 289,204 km (1997 est.)
Kazakhstan
- total:
- 189,000 km
- paved:
- 108,100 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 80,900 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 87,534 km
- paved:
- 65,388 km (including 1,996 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 22,146 km (1999)
Kyrgyzstan
- total:
- 30,300 km (including 140 km of expressways)
- paved:
- 22,600 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 7,700 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
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:
- 3,387 km
- paved:
- 1,563 km
note: there are also 45,862 km of rural roads that consist of rough, unimproved, cross-country tracks (2000)
- unpaved:
- 1,824 km
Pakistan
- total:
- 247,811 km
- paved:
- 141,252 km (including 339 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 106,559 km (1998)
Russia
- total:
- 952,000 km
- paved:
- 752,000 km (including about 336,000 km of conventionally paved roads, and about 416,000 km of roads with all-weather gravel surfaces)
- unpaved:
- 200,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1998)
Tajikistan
- total:
- 29,900 km
- paved:
- 21,400 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 8,500 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Turkmenistan
- total:
- 22,000 km
- paved:
- 18,000 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 4,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1996)
Uzbekistan
- total:
- 81,600 km
- paved:
- 71,237 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 10,363 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesAntigua and Barbuda
- total:
- 1,165 km
- paved:
- 384 km
- unpaved:
- 781 km
note: it is assumed that the main roads are paved; the secondary roads are assumed to be unpaved (1995)
Aruba
- total:
- 800 km
- paved:
- 513 km
note: most coastal roads are paved, while unpaved roads serve large tracts of the interior (1995)
- unpaved:
- 287 km
El Salvador
- total:
- 10,029 km
- paved:
- 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,043 km (1997)
Virgin Islands
- total:
- 856 km
- paved:
- NA km
note: the only US posession where driving on the left side of the road is practiced (2000)
- unpaved:
- NA km
Europe
46 entriesBelarus
- total:
- 98,200 km
- paved:
- 66,100 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 32,100 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Belgium
- total:
- 145,774 km
- paved:
- 116,182 km (including 1,674 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 29,592 km (1999)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 21,846 km
- paved:
- 14,020 km
note: road system is in need of maintenance and repair (2001)
- unpaved:
- 7,826 km
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 55,432 km
- paved:
- 55,432 km (including 499 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (2000)
Estonia
- total:
- 30,300 km
- paved:
- 29,200 km (including 75 km of expressways);
- note - these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather
- unpaved:
- 1,100 km (2000)
Germany
- total:
- 656,140 km
- paved:
- 650,891 km (including 11,400 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 5,249 km (all-weather) (1998 est.)
Hungary
- total:
- 188,203 km
- paved:
- 81,680 km (including 448 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.)
Moldova
- total:
- 20,000 km
- paved:
- 13,900 km (includes some all-weather gravel-surfaced roads)
- unpaved:
- 6,100 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Netherlands
- total:
- 116,500 km
- paved:
- 104,850 km (including 2,235 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 11,650 km (1999)
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)
Poland
- total:
- 381,046 km
- paved:
- 249,966 km (including 268 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 131,080 km (1998)
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)
note: because of the 1999 Kosovo conflict, many road bridges were destroyed; since the end of the conflict in June 1999, there has been an intensive program to either rebuild bridges or build by-pass routes (1999)
- unpaved:
- 19,781 km
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)
Sweden
- total:
- 210,760 km
- paved:
- 162,707 km (including 1,428 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 48,053 km (1999)
Switzerland
- total:
- 71,059 km (including 1,638 km of expressways)
- paved:
- 71,059 km
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1999)
Ukraine
- total:
- 273,700 km
- paved:
- 236,400 km (including 1,770 km of expressways and a substantial amount of all-weather roads with gravel surfaces)
- unpaved:
- 37,300 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
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
note: a paved causeway links Bahrain and 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.)
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 382,059 km
- paved:
- 106,976 km (including 1,726 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 275,083 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:
- 450 km
- paved:
- 450 km
note: public roads - 209 km; private roads - 241 km (2002)
- unpaved:
- 0 km
Canada
- total:
- 901,902 km
- paved:
- 318,371 km (including 16,571 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 583,531 km (1999)
Mexico
- total:
- 323,977 km
- paved:
- 96,221 km (including 6,335 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 227,756 km (1997)
United States
- total:
- 6,370,031 km
- paved:
- 5,733,028 km (including 74,091 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 637,003 km (1997)
Oceania
27 entriesAustralia
- total:
- 913,000 km
- paved:
- 353,331 km (including 1,363 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 559,669 km (1996)
Guam
- total:
- 885 km
- paved:
- 675 km
- unpaved:
- 210 km
note: there are also 685 km of roads classified non-public, including roads located on federal government installations
Marshall Islands
- total:
- NA km
- paved:
- 64.5 km
- unpaved:
- NA km
note: paved roads on major islands (Majuro, Kwajalein), otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and tracks (2002)
Micronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- total:
- 240 km
- paved:
- 42 km
- unpaved:
- 198 km (1996)
New Zealand
- total:
- 92,200 km
- paved:
- 53,568 km (including at least 144 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 38,632 km (1996)
Niue
- total:
- 234 km
- paved:
- 86 km
- unpaved:
- 148 km (106 km of which is access and plantation road) (2001)
Palmyra Atoll
much of the road and many causeways built during World War II are unserviceable and overgrown (2001)
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 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 215,434 km
- paved:
- 63,553 km (including 734 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 151,881 km (1998 est.)
Southeast Asia
16 entriesChristmas Island
- total:
- 140 km (not including 100 km that is maintained by private industry)
- paved:
- 30 km
- unpaved:
- 110 km (1999)
Malaysia
- total:
- 64,672 km
- paved:
- 48,707 km (including 1,192 km of expressways)
note: in addition to these national and main regional roads, Malaysia has thousands of kilometers of local roads that are maintained by local jurisdictions (1999)
- unpaved:
- 15,965 km
Taiwan
- total:
- 34,901 km
- paved:
- 31,271 km (including 538 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 3,630 km (1998 est.)
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2002, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2002.