The CIA World Factbook Edition 2007 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2007 edition carries it in 229 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2007 edition
- 229
- 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
55 entriesCongo, Democratic Republic of the now Democratic Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 153,497 km
- paved:
- 2,794 km
- unpaved:
- 150,703 km (2004)
Congo, Republic of the now Republic of the Congo
- total:
- 17,289 km
- paved:
- 864 km
- unpaved:
- 16,425 km (2004)
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:
- 63,265 km (interurban roads)
- paved:
- 8,933 km
- unpaved:
- 54,332 km
note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,765 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 118 km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km)
- unpaved:
- 30 km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension 0 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2002)
South Africa
- total:
- 362,099 km
- paved:
- 73,506 km (includes 239 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 288,593 km (2002)
Arctic Region
2 entriesAsia
23 entriesBritish Indian Ocean Territory
- total:
- NA
- paved:
- short section of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
China
- total:
- 1,870,661 km
- paved:
- 1,515,797 km (with at least 34,288 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 354,864 km (2004)
Japan
- total:
- 1.183 million km
- paved:
- 925,000 km (includes 6,946 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 258,000 km (2003)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 100,279 km
- paved:
- 87,032 km (includes 3,060 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 13,247 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:
- 258,340 km
- paved:
- 167,146 km (includes 711 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 91,194 km (2004)
Russia
- total:
- 871,000 km
- paved:
- 738,000 km (includes 29,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 133,000 km
note: includes public and departmental roads (2004)
Central America and the Caribbean
28 entriesMontserrat
- total:
- 227 km
note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the road system (2003)
Puerto Rico
- total:
- 25,735 km
- paved:
- 24,353 km (includes 427 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,382 km (2005)
Europe
47 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 150,567 km
- paved:
- 117,442 km (includes 1,747 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 33,125 km (2004)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- total:
- 21,846 km
- paved:
- 11,425 km (4,714 km of interurban roads)
- unpaved:
- 10,421 km (2006)
Czech Republic now Czechia
- total:
- 127,865 km
- paved:
- 127,865 km (includes 633 km of expressways) (2006)
European Union
- total:
- 2,394,641 km (includes 61,522 km of expressways)
- paved:
- 1,809,821 km
- unpaved:
- 584,820 km (2005)
France
- total:
- 956,303 km (includes 5,083 km of roads in the overseas departments)
- paved:
- 951,220 km (metropolitan France; including 10,490 km of expressways) (2004)
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)
Poland
- total:
- 423,997 km
- paved:
- 295,356 km (includes 484 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 128,641 km (2004)
Portugal
- total:
- 78,470 km
- paved:
- 67,484 km (includes 2,002 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 10,986 km (2004)
Romania
- total:
- 198,817 km
- paved:
- 60,043 km (includes 228 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 138,774 km (2004)
Spain
- total:
- 666,292 km
- paved:
- 659,629 km (includes 12,009 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 6,663 km (2003)
Sweden
- total:
- 424,947 km
- paved:
- 129,651 km (includes 1,591 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 295,296 km (2004)
Middle East
17 entriesCyprus
- total:
- 14,630 km (area under government control: 12,280 km; area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 2,350 km)
- paved:
- area under government control: 7,979 km (includes 257 km of expressways); area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 1,370 km
- unpaved:
- area under government control: 4,301 km; area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 980 km (2006)
Turkey now Turkiye
- total:
- 426,906 km
- paved:
- 177,550 km (includes 1,892 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 249,356 km (2004)
North America
4 entriesCanada
- total:
- 1,042,300 km
- paved:
- 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 626,700 km (2006)
Mexico
- total:
- 235,670 km
- paved:
- 116,751 km (includes 6,144 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 118,919 km (2004)
United States
- total:
- 6,430,366 km
- paved:
- 4,165,110 km (includes 75,009 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,265,256 km (2005)
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:
- 92,931 km
- paved:
- 59,783 km (includes 171 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 33,148 km (2003)
South America
13 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 229,144 km
- paved:
- 68,809 km (includes 734 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 160,335 km (2004)
Southeast Asia
16 entriesMalaysia
- total:
- 98,721 km
- paved:
- 80,280 km (includes 1,821 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 18,441 km (2004)
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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2007, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2007.