The CIA World Factbook Edition 2003 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2003 edition carries it in 240 entries, in its Transportation section, under the heading “Highways”. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2003 edition
- 240
- the first edition with it
- 1990
- the latest edition with it
- 2024
Published as “Roadways” (2006 to 2024) and “Highways” (1990 to 2005).
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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 (1999)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 157,000 km (including 30 km of expressways)
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km (1999 est.)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 12,800 km
- paved:
- 1,242 km
- unpaved:
- 11,558 km (1999 est.)
Nigeria
- total:
- 194,394 km
- paved:
- 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 134,326 km (1999 est.)
Saint Helena now Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
- total:
- 198 km (Saint Helena 138 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 20 km)
- paved:
- 168 km (Saint Helena 118km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km)
- unpaved:
- 30 km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension 0 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2000)
South Africa
- total:
- 362,099 km
- paved:
- 73,506 km (including 2,032 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 288,593 km (2000)
Arctic Region
3 entriesAsia
23 entriesBritish Indian Ocean Territory
- total:
- NA km
- paved:
- short section of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
- unpaved:
- NA km
China
- total:
- 1,402,698 km
- paved:
- 314,204 km (with at least 16,314 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,088,494 km (2000)
Japan
- total:
- 1,161,894 km
- paved:
- 534,471 km (including 6,455 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 627,423 km (1999)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 86,990 km
- paved:
- 64,808 km (including 1,996 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 22,182 km (1999 est.)
Kyrgyzstan
- total:
- 18,500 km
- paved:
- 16,854 km (including 140 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,646 km (1999 est.)
Pakistan
- total:
- 254,410 km
- paved:
- 109,396 km (including 339 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 145,014 km (1999)
Central America and the Caribbean
31 entriesAruba
- 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
Cuba
- total:
- 60,858 km
- paved:
- 29,820 km (including 638 km of expressway)
- unpaved:
- 31,038 km (1999 est.)
El Salvador
- total:
- 10,029 km
- paved:
- 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,043 km (1999 est.)
Montserrat
- total:
- 227 km
- paved:
- NA km
- unpaved:
- NA km
note: volcanic eruptions beginning in 1995 destroyed most of the road system (2003)
Virgin Islands
- total:
- 856 km
- paved:
- NA km
note: the only US possession where driving on the left side of the road is practiced (2000)
- unpaved:
- NA km
Europe
46 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 148,216 km
- paved:
- 116,687 km (including 1,727 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 31,529 km (2000)
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 55,408 km
- paved:
- 55,408 km (including 499 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (2000)
Greece
- total:
- 117,000 km
- paved:
- 107,406 km (including 470 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,594 km (1999 est.)
Hungary
- total:
- 188,203 km
- paved:
- 81,680 km (including 438 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 106,523 km (1999)
Ireland
- total:
- 92,500 km
- paved:
- 87,043 km (including 115 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 5,457 km (2000 est.)
Lithuania
- total:
- 75,243 km
- paved:
- 68,697 km (including 417 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 6,546 km (2000)
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 (1999 est.)
Poland
- total:
- 364,656 km
- paved:
- 249,060 km (including 358 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 115,596 km (2000)
Portugal
- total:
- 68,732 km
- paved:
- 59,110 km (including 1441 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 9,622 km (2000)
Romania
- total:
- 198,603 km
- paved:
- 98,308 km (including 113 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 100,295 km (2000)
Serbia and Montenegro
- total:
- 49,805 km
- paved:
- 31,029 km (including 560 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 18,776 km (2000)
Spain
- total:
- 663,795 km
- paved:
- 657,157 km (including 10,317 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 6,638 km (1999)
Sweden
- total:
- 212,402 km
- paved:
- 166,523 km (including 1,499 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 45,879 km (2000)
United Kingdom
- total:
- 371,913 km
- paved:
- 371,913 km (including 3,358 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1999)
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
- total:
- 13,491 km
note: Greek Cypriot area: 11,141 km; Turkish Cypriot area: 2,350 km
- unpaved:
- Greek Cypriot area: 4,713 km; Turkish Cypriot area: 980 km (2000/1996)
- paved:
- Greek Cypriot area: 6,428 km; Turkish Cypriot area: 1,370 km
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 385,960 km
- paved:
- 131,226 km (including 1,749 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 254,734 km (1999)
United Arab Emirates
- total:
- 1,088 km
- paved:
- 1,088 km (including 253 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 0 km (1999 est.)
West Bank
- total:
- 4,500 km
- paved:
- 2,700 km
- unpaved:
- 1,800 km
note: Israelis have developed many highways to service Jewish settlements (1997 est.)
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:
- 1.408 million km
- paved:
- 497,306 km (including 16,900 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 911,494 km (2002)
Mexico
- total:
- 329,532 km
- paved:
- 108,087 km (including 6,429 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 221,445 km (1999 est.)
United States
- total:
- 6,334,859 km
- paved:
- 3,737,567 km (including 89,426 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,597,292 km (2000)
Oceania
27 entriesAustralia
- total:
- 811,603 km
- paved:
- 314,090 km (including 18,619 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 497,513 km (1999 est.)
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 (1999 est.)
New Zealand
- total:
- 92,053 km
- paved:
- 57,809 km (including at least 190 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 34,244 km (2000)
Palmyra Atoll
most of the roads and many causeways built during World War II are unserviceable and overgrown (2001)
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
16 entriesMalaysia
- total:
- 65,877 km
- paved:
- 49,935 km (including 1,192 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 15,942 km (1999)
Cite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2003, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2003.