The CIA World Factbook Edition 2004 Transportation

Transportation - note In 30 editions of 36.

Transportation - note was published in 30 editions of the CIA World Factbook, from 1996 to 2025. The 2004 edition carries it in 10 entries, in its Transportation section. Every entry is shown as that edition published it.

entries in the 2004 edition
10
the first edition with it
1996
the latest edition with it
2025

Published as “Transportation - note” (1997 to 2025), “Transportation--note” (1999), “Transportation-note” (1998) and “Transportation note” (1996).

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Edition 2004

Entries with Transportation - note in each edition

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Asia

1 entry

Georgia

transportation network is in poor condition resulting from ethnic conflict, criminal activities, and fuel shortages; network lacks maintenance and repair

Oceania

5 entries

Baker Island

there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast

Howland Island

  • Earhart Light is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast that was partially destroyed during World War II, but has since been rebuilt;
  • named in memory of famed aviatrix Amelia EARHART

Jarvis Island

there is a day beacon near the middle of the west coast

Midway Islands

airfield serves as an emergency landing site for commercial aircraft crossing the Pacific Ocean

Wake Island

formerly an important commercial aviation base, now used by US military, some commercial cargo planes, and for emergency landings

Oceans

4 entries

Arctic Ocean

sparse network of air, ocean, river, and land routes; the Northwest Passage (North America) and Northern Sea Route (Eurasia) are important seasonal waterways

Atlantic Ocean

  • Kiel Canal and Saint Lawrence Seaway are two important waterways;
  • significant domestic commercial and recreational use of Intracoastal Waterway on central and south Atlantic seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast of US

Pacific Ocean

Inside Passage offers protected waters from southeast Alaska to Puget Sound (Washington state)

Southern Ocean

Drake Passage offers alternative to transit through the Panama Canal

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Central Intelligence Agency. The World Factbook 2004, “Transportation - note”, all entries. Archived by The Factbook, thefactbook.org/fields/transportation-note/2004.

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