The CIA World Factbook Edition 2008 Transportation
Roadways In 35 editions of 36.
Roadways was published in 35 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1990 to 2024. The 2008 edition carries it in 228 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.
- entries in the 2008 edition
- 228
- 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
54 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
note: short section of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
China
- total:
- 1,930,544 km
- paved:
- 1,575,571 km (includes 41,005 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 354,973 km (2005)
Japan
- total:
- 1,196,999 km
- paved:
- 949,101 km (includes 7,383 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 247,898 km (2006)
Korea, South now South Korea
- total:
- 102,062 km
- paved:
- 90,417 km (includes 3,103 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 11,645 km (2006)
Kyrgyzstan
- total:
- 18,500 km
- paved:
- 16,909 km (includes 140 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,591 km (2003)
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:
- 259,758 km
- paved:
- 162,879 km (includes 711 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 96,879 km (2005)
Russia
- total:
- 933,000 km
- paved:
- 754,984 km (includes 30,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 178,016 km
note: includes public, local, and departmental roads (2006)
Central America and the Caribbean
28 entriesEl Salvador
- total:
- 10,886 km
- paved:
- 2,827 km (includes 327 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 8,059 km (2000)
Montserrat
note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the 227 km road system; a new road infrastructure has been built in the north end of the island (2008)
Puerto Rico
- total:
- 26,186 km
- paved:
- 24,877 km (includes 427 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 1,309 km (2007)
Europe
47 entriesBelgium
- total:
- 152,256 km
- paved:
- 119,079 km (includes 1,763 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 33,177 km (2006)
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:
- 128,512 km
- paved:
- 128,512 km (includes 657 km of expressways) (2007)
France
- total:
- 951,500 km
- paved:
- 951,500 km (metropolitan France; includes 10,950 km of expressways)
note: there are another 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2006)
Germany
- total:
- 644,480 km
- paved:
- 644,480 km (includes 12,400 km of expressways)
note: includes local roads (2006)
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 662 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 128,641 km (2006)
Portugal
- total:
- 82,900 km
- paved:
- 71,294 km (includes 2,300 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 11,606 km (2005)
Romania
- total:
- 198,817 km
- paved:
- 60,043 km (includes 228 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 138,774 km (2004)
Serbia
- total:
- 36,875 km
- paved:
- 31,392 km
- unpaved:
- 5,483 km
note: roadways in Kosovo listed separately (2006)
Sweden
- total:
- 425,300 km
- paved:
- 139,300 km (includes 1,740 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 286,000 km (2008)
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)
Saudi Arabia
- total:
- 221,372 km
- paved:
- 47,529 km (includes 3,891 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 173,843 km (2006)
North America
5 entriesCanada
- total:
- 1,042,300 km
- paved:
- 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 626,700 km (2006)
Mexico
- total:
- 356,945 km
- paved:
- 178,473 km (includes 6,279 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 178,472 km (2006)
United States
- total:
- 6,465,799 km
- paved:
- 4,209,835 km (includes 75,040 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 2,255,964 km (2007)
Oceania
22 entriesMicronesia, Federated States of now Federated States of Micronesia
- total:
- 240 km
- paved:
- 42 km
- unpaved:
- 198 km (2000)
New Zealand
- total:
- 93,576 km
- paved:
- 61,564 km (includes 172 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 32,012 km (2006)
Solomon Islands
- total:
- 1,360 km
- paved:
- 33 km
- unpaved:
- 1,327 km
note: includes 800 km of private plantation roads (2002)
South America
13 entriesArgentina
- total:
- 231,374 km
- paved:
- 69,412 km (includes 734 km of expressways)
- unpaved:
- 161,962 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)
Cite this page
Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2008, “Roadways”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/roadways/2008.