The CIA World Factbook Edition 2006 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2006 edition carries it in 233 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2006 edition
- 233
- 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
56 entriesCongo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 157,000 km (including 30 km of expressways) (1999)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 12,800 km
- paved:
- 1,242 km
- unpaved:
- 11,558 km (1999)
Cote d'Ivoire
- total:
- 80,000 km
- paved:
- 6,500 km
- unpaved:
- 73,500 km
note: includes intercity and urban roads; another 20,000 km of dirt roads are in poor condition and 150,000 km of dirt roads are impassable (2006)
Kenya
- total:
- 63,000 km (interurban roads)
- paved:
- 7,623 km
- unpaved:
- 55,377 km
note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,500 km (2004)
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) (2002)
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
23 entriesAzerbaijan
- total:
- 27,016 km
- paved:
- 12,698 km (including 128 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 14,318 km (2003)
British Indian Ocean Territory
- total:
- NA
- paved:
- short section of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
China
- total:
- 1,809,829 km
- paved:
- 1,447,682 km (with at least 29,745 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 362,147 km (2003)
Japan
- total:
- 1.183 million km
- paved:
- 925,000 km (including 6,946 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 258,000 km (2003)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 97,252 km
- paved:
- 74,641 km (including 3,060 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 22,611 km (2004)
Maldives
- total:
- 88 km
- paved roads:
- 88 km - 60 km in Male;
- 14 km on Addu Atolis;
- 14 km on Laamu
note: village roads are mainly compacted coral (2006)
Pakistan
- total:
- 255,856 km
- paved:
- 157,975 km (including 367 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 97,881 km (2004)
Russia
- total:
- 871,000 km
- paved:
- 738,000 km (including 29,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 133,000 km
note: includes public and departmental roads (2004)
Central America and the Caribbean
30 entriesMontserrat
- total:
- 227 km
note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the road system (2003)
Puerto Rico
- total:
- 25,645 km
- paved:
- 24,363 km (including 426 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,282 km (2004)
Europe
47 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 149,757 km
- paved:
- 117,110 km (including 1,747 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 32,647 km (2003)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 21,846 km
- paved:
- 11,425 km (4,686 km of interurban roads)
- unpaved:
- 10,421 km (2005)
Bulgaria
- total:
- 102,016 km
- paved:
- 93,855 km (including 328 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,161 km (2003)
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 127,747 km
- paved:
- 127,747 km (including 518 km of expressways) (2003)
European Union
- total:
- 4,634,810 km (including 56,704 km of expressways)
- paved:
- 4,161,318 km
- unpaved:
- 473,492 km (1999-2000)
Hungary
- total:
- 159,568 km
- paved:
- 70,050 km (30,874 km of interurban roads including 626 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 89,518 km (2005)
Lithuania
- total:
- 79,497 km
- paved:
- 70,549 km (including 417 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,948 km (2005)
Poland
- total:
- 423,997 km
- paved:
- 295,356 km (including 405 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 128,641 km (2004)
Portugal
- total:
- 72,600 km
- paved:
- 62,436 km (including 1,700 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 10,164 km (2002)
Romania
- total:
- 198,817 km
- paved:
- 60,043 km (including 228 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 138,774 km (2003)
Spain
- total:
- 666,292 km
- paved:
- 659,629 km (including 12,009 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 6,663 km (2003)
Sweden
- total:
- 424,981 km
- paved:
- 132,339 km (including 1,544 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 292,642 km (2003)
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
- total:
- 14,496 km (Republic of Cyprus: 12,146 km; north Cyprus: 2,350 km)
- paved:
- Republic of Cyprus: 7,845 km (including 276 km of expressways); north Cyprus: 1,370 km
- unpaved:
- Republic of Cyprus: 4,301 km; north Cyprus: 980 km (2005/1996 est.)
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 347,553 km
- paved:
- 154,807 km (including 1,886 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 192,747 km (2004)
North America
4 entriesCanada
- total:
- 1,042,300 km
- paved:
- 415,600 km (including 17,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 626,700 km (2005)
Mexico
- total:
- 349,038 km
- paved:
- 116,928 km (including 6,979 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 232,110 km (2003)
United States
- total:
- 6,407,637 km
- paved:
- 4,164,964 km (including 74,950 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,242,673 km (2004)
Oceania
23 entriesMarshall Islands
- total:
- 64.5 km
- paved:
- 64.5 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)
New Zealand
- total:
- 92,662 km
- paved:
- 59,109 km (including 169 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 33,553 km (2003)
South America
14 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 229,144 km
- paved:
- 68,809 km (including 734 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 160,335 km (2004)
Southeast Asia
16 entriesCite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2006, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2006.