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Gabon:
1.02% (2001 est.)

Gambia, The:
3.14% (2001 est.)

Gaza Strip:
4.01% (2001 est.)

Georgia:
-0.59% (2001 est.)

Germany:
0.27% (2001 est.)

Ghana:
1.79% (2001 est.)

Gibraltar:
0.24% (2001 est.)

Greece:
0.21% (2001 est.)

Greenland:
0.06% (2001 est.)

Grenada:
-0.06% (2001 est.)

Guadeloupe:
1.07% (2001 est.)

Guam:
2.09% (2001 est.)

Guatemala:
2.6% (2001 est.)

Guernsey:
0.39% (2001 est.)

Guinea:
1.96% (2001 est.)

Guinea-Bissau:
2.23% (2001 est.)

Guyana:
0.07% (2001 est.)

Haiti:
1.4% (2001 est.)

Holy See (Vatican City):
1.15% (2001 est.)

Honduras:
2.43% (2001 est.)

Hong Kong:
1.3% (2001 est.)

Hungary:
-0.32% (2001 est.)

Iceland:
0.54% (2001 est.)

India:
1.55% (2001 est.)

Indonesia:
1.6% (2001 est.)

Iran:
0.72% (2001 est.)

Iraq:
2.84% (2001 est.)

Ireland:
1.12% (2001 est.)

Israel:
1.58% (2001 est.)

Italy:
0.07% (2001 est.)

Jamaica:
0.51% (2001 est.)

Japan:
0.17% (2001 est.)

Jersey:
0.48% (2001 est.)

Johnston Atoll:
-5.94% (2001 est.)

Jordan:
3% (2001 est.)

Kazakhstan:
0.03% (2001 est.)

Kenya:
1.27% (2001 est.)

Kiribati:
2.31% (2001 est.)

Korea, North:
1.22% (2001 est.)

Korea, South:
0.89% (2001 est.)

Kuwait:
3.38% (2001 est.)

note: this rate reflects a return to pre-Gulf crisis immigration of
expatriates

Kyrgyzstan:
1.44% (2001 est.)

Laos:
2.48% (2001 est.)

Latvia:
-0.81% (2001 est.)

Lebanon:
1.38% (2001 est.)

Lesotho:
1.49% (2001 est.)

Liberia:
1.92% (2001 est.)

Libya:
2.42% (2001 est.)

Liechtenstein:
0.98% (2001 est.)

Lithuania:
-0.27% (2001 est.)

Luxembourg:
1.26% (2001 est.)

Macau:
1.79% (2001 est.)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
0.43% (2001 est.)

Madagascar:
3.02% (2001 est.)

Malawi:
1.5% (2001 est.)

Malaysia:
1.96% (2001 est.)

Maldives:
3.01% (2001 est.)

Mali:
2.97% (2001 est.)

Malta:
0.74% (2001 est.)

Man, Isle of:
0.52% (2001 est.)

Marshall Islands:
3.88% (2001 est.)

Martinique:
0.93% (2001 est.)

Mauritania:
2.93% (2001 est.)

Mauritius:
0.88% (2001 est.)

Mayotte:
4.58% (2001 est.)

Mexico:
1.5% (2001 est.)

Moldova:
0.05% (2001 est.)

Monaco:
0.46% (2001 est.)

Mongolia:
1.47% (2001 est.)

Montserrat:
13.39% (2001 est.)

Morocco:
1.71% (2001 est.)

Mozambique:
1.3% (2001 est.)

Namibia:
1.38% (2001 est.)

Nauru:
2% (2001 est.)

Nepal:
2.32% (2001 est.)

Netherlands:
0.55% (2001 est.)

Netherlands Antilles:
0.97% (2001 est.)

New Caledonia:
1.48% (2001 est.)

New Zealand:
1.14% (2001 est.)

Nicaragua:
2.15% (2001 est.)

Niger:
2.72% (2001 est.)

Nigeria:
2.61% (2001 est.)

Niue:
0.5% (2001 est.)

Norfolk Island:
-0.71% (2001 est.)

Northern Mariana Islands:
3.62% (2001 est.)

Norway:
0.49% (2001 est.)

Oman:
3.43% (2001 est.)

Pakistan:
2.11% (2001 est.)

Palau:
1.69% (2001 est.)

Panama:
1.3% (2001 est.)

Papua New Guinea:
2.43% (2001 est.)

Paraguay:
2.6% (2001 est.)

Peru:
1.7% (2001 est.)

Philippines:
2.03% (2001 est.)

Pitcairn Islands:
-2.08% (2001 est.)

Poland:
-0.03% (2001 est.)

Portugal:
0.18% (2001 est.)

Puerto Rico:
0.54% (2001 est.)

Qatar:
3.18% (2001 est.)

Reunion:
1.57% (2001 est.)

Romania:
-0.21% (2001 est.)

Russia:
-0.35% (2001 est.)

Rwanda:
1.16% (2001 est.)

Saint Helena:
0.72% (2001 est.)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
-0.11% (2001 est.)

Saint Lucia:
1.23% (2001 est.)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
0.43% (2001 est.)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
0.4% (2001 est.)

Samoa:
-0.23% (2001 est.)

San Marino:
1.45% (2001 est.)

Sao Tome and Principe:
3.18% (2001 est.)

Saudi Arabia:
3.27% (2001 est.)

Senegal:
2.93% (2001 est.)

Seychelles:
0.49% (2001 est.)

Sierra Leone:
3.61% (2001 est.)

Singapore:
3.5% (2001 est.)

Slovakia:
0.13% (2001 est.)

Slovenia:
0.14% (2001 est.)

Solomon Islands:
2.98% (2001 est.)

Somalia:
3.48% (2001 est.)

South Africa:
0.26% (2001 est.)

Spain:
0.1% (2001 est.)

Sri Lanka:
0.87% (2001 est.)

Sudan:
2.79% (2001 est.)

Suriname:
0.6% (2001 est.)

Svalbard:
-3.55% (2001 est.)

Swaziland:
1.83% (2001 est.)

Sweden:
0.02% (2001 est.)

Switzerland:
0.27% (2001 est.)

Syria:
2.54% (2001 est.)

Tajikistan:
2.12% (2001 est.)

Tanzania:
2.61% (2001 est.)

Thailand:
0.91% (2001 est.)

Togo:
2.6% (2001 est.)

Tokelau:
-0.92% (2001 est.)

Tonga:
1.79% (2001 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago:
-0.51% (2001 est.)

Tunisia:
1.15% (2001 est.)

Turkey:
1.24% (2001 est.)

Turkmenistan:
1.85% (2001 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
3.41% (2001 est.)

Tuvalu:
1.4% (2001 est.)

Uganda:
2.93% (2001 est.)

Ukraine:
-0.78% (2001 est.)

United Arab Emirates:
1.59% (2001 est.)

United Kingdom:
0.23% (2001 est.)

United States:
0.9% (2001 est.)

Uruguay:
0.78% (2001 est.)

Uzbekistan:
1.6% (2001 est.)

Vanuatu:
1.7% (2001 est.)

Venezuela:
1.56% (2001 est.)

Vietnam:
1.45% (2001 est.)

Virgin Islands:
1.06% (2001 est.)

Wallis and Futuna:
NA%

West Bank:
3.48% (2001 est.)

World:
1.25% (2001 est.)

Yemen:
3.38% (2001 est.)

Yugoslavia:
-0.27% (2001 est.)

Zambia:
1.93% (2001 est.)

Zimbabwe:
0.15% (2001 est.)

Taiwan:
0.8% (2001 est.)

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@Ports and harbors

Afghanistan:
Kheyrabad, Shir Khan

Albania:
Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore

Algeria:
Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Beni Saf, Dellys,
Djendjene, Ghazaouet, Jijel, Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda, Tenes

American Samoa:
Aunu'u (new construction), Auasi, Faleosao, Ofu,
Pago Pago, Ta'u

Andorra:
none

Angola:
Ambriz, Cabinda, Lobito, Luanda, Malongo, Mocamedes, Namibe,
Porto Amboim, Soyo

Anguilla:
Blowing Point, Road Bay

Antarctica:
there are no developed ports and harbors in Antarctica;
most coastal stations have offshore anchorages, and supplies are
transferred from ship to shore by small boats, barges, and
helicopters; a few stations have a basic wharf facility US coastal
stations include McMurdo (77 51 S, 166 40 E), Palmer (64 43 S, 64 03
W); government use only except by permit (see Permit Office under
"Legal System"); offshore anchorage is sparse and intermittent

Antigua and Barbuda:
Saint John's

Arctic Ocean:
Churchill (Canada), Murmansk (Russia), Prudhoe Bay (US)

Argentina:
Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, Comodoro Rivadavia,
Concepcion del Uruguay, La Plata, Mar del Plata, Necochea, Rio
Gallegos, Rosario, Santa Fe, Ushuaia

Armenia:
none

Aruba:
Barcadera, Oranjestad, Sint Nicolaas

Ashmore and Cartier Islands:
none; offshore anchorage only

Atlantic Ocean:
Alexandria (Egypt), Algiers (Algeria), Antwerp
(Belgium), Barcelona (Spain), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Casablanca
(Morocco), Colon (Panama), Copenhagen (Denmark), Dakar (Senegal),
Gdansk (Poland), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Las Palmas
(Canary Islands, Spain), Le Havre (France), Lisbon (Portugal),
London (UK), Marseille (France), Montevideo (Uruguay), Montreal
(Canada), Naples (Italy), New Orleans (US), New York (US), Oran
(Algeria), Oslo (Norway), Peiraiefs or Piraeus (Greece), Rio de
Janeiro (Brazil), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Saint Petersburg
(Russia), Stockholm (Sweden)

Australia:
Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Devonport (Tasmania),
Fremantle, Geelong, Hobart (Tasmania), Launceston (Tasmania),
Mackay, Melbourne, Sydney, Townsville

Austria:
Linz, Vienna, Enns, Krems

Azerbaijan:
Baku (Baki)

Bahamas, The:
Freeport, Matthew Town, Nassau

Bahrain:
Manama, Mina' Salman, Sitrah

Baker Island:
none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one
small boat landing area along the middle of the west coast

Bangladesh:
Chittagong, Dhaka, Mongla Port, Narayanganj (2001)

Barbados:
Bridgetown, Speightstown (Port Charles Marina)

Bassas da India:
none; offshore anchorage only

Belarus:
Mazyr

Belgium:
Antwerp (one of the world's busiest ports), Brugge, Gent,
Hasselt, Liege, Mons, Namur, Oostende, Zeebrugge

Belize:
Belize City, Big Creek, Corozol, Punta Gorda

Benin:
Cotonou, Porto-Novo

Bermuda:
Hamilton, Saint George

Bhutan:
none

Bolivia:
none; however, Bolivia has free port privileges in maritime
ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
Bosanska Gradiska, Bosanski Brod, Bosanski
Samac, and Brcko (all inland waterway ports on the Sava), Orasje

Botswana:
none

Bouvet Island:
none; offshore anchorage only

Brazil:
Belem, Fortaleza, Ilheus, Imbituba, Manaus, Paranagua, Porto
Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Grande, Salvador, Santos, Vitoria

British Indian Ocean Territory:
Diego Garcia

British Virgin Islands:
Road Town

Brunei:
Bandar Seri Begawan, Kuala Belait, Muara, Seria, Tutong

Bulgaria:
Burgas, Lom, Nesebur, Ruse, Varna, Vidin

Burkina Faso:
none

Burma:
Bassein, Bhamo, Chauk, Mandalay, Moulmein, Myitkyina,
Rangoon, Akyab (Sittwe), Tavoy

Burundi:
Bujumbura

Cambodia:
Kampong Saom (Sihanoukville), Kampot, Krong Kaoh Kong,
Phnom Penh

Cameroon:
Bonaberi, Douala, Garoua, Kribi, Tiko

Canada:
Becancour (Quebec), Churchill, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal,
New Westminster, Prince Rupert, Quebec, Saint John (New Brunswick),
St. John's (Newfoundland), Sept Isles, Sydney, Trois-Rivieres,
Thunder Bay, Toronto, Vancouver, Windsor

Cape Verde:
Mindelo, Praia, Tarrafal

Cayman Islands:
Cayman Brac, George Town

Central African Republic:
Bangui, Nola

Chad:
none

Chile:
Antofagasta, Arica, Chanaral, Coquimbo, Iquique, Puerto
Montt, Punta Arenas, San Antonio, San Vicente, Talcahuano, Valparaiso

China:
Dalian, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Huangpu, Lianyungang,
Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shantou,
Tianjin, Xiamen, Xingang, Yantai, Zhanjiang

Christmas Island:
Flying Fish Cove

Clipperton Island:
none; offshore anchorage only

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
none; lagoon anchorage only

Colombia:
Bahia de Portete, Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Cartagena,
Leticia, Puerto Bolivar, San Andres, Santa Marta, Tumaco, Turbo

Comoros:
Fomboni, Moroni, Moutsamoudou

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
Banana, Boma, Bukavu, Bumba,
Goma, Kalemie, Kindu, Kinshasa, Kisangani, Matadi, Mbandaka

Congo, Republic of the:
Brazzaville, Impfondo, Ouesso, Oyo,
Pointe-Noire

Cook Islands:
Avarua, Avatiu

Coral Sea Islands:
none; offshore anchorage only

Costa Rica:
Caldera, Golfito, Moin, Puerto Limon, Puerto Quepos,
Puntarenas

Cote d'Ivoire:
Abidjan, Aboisso, Dabou, San-Pedro

Croatia:
Dubrovnik, Dugi Rat, Omisalj, Ploce, Pula, Rijeka, Sibenik,
Split, Vukovar (inland waterway port on Danube), Zadar

Cuba:
Cienfuegos, Havana, Manzanillo, Mariel, Matanzas, Nuevitas,
Santiago de Cuba

Cyprus:
Famagusta, Kyrenia, Larnaca, Limassol, Paphos, Vasilikos

Czech Republic:
Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem

Denmark:
Abenra, Alborg, Arhus, Copenhagen, Esbjerg, Fredericia,
Kolding, Odense, Roenne (Bornholm), Vejle

Djibouti:
Djibouti

Dominica:
Portsmouth, Roseau

Dominican Republic:
Barahona, La Romana, Puerto Plata, San Pedro de
Macoris, Santo Domingo

Ecuador:
Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar,
San Lorenzo

Egypt:
Alexandria, Al Ghardaqah, Aswan, Asyut, Bur Safajah,
Damietta, Marsa Matruh, Port Said, Suez

El Salvador:
Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco, La Libertad, La Union, Puerto
El Triunfo

Equatorial Guinea:
Bata, Luba, Malabo

Eritrea:
Assab (Aseb), Massawa (Mits'iwa)

Estonia:
Haapsalu, Kunda, Muuga, Paldiski, Parnu, Tallinn

Ethiopia:
none; Ethiopia is landlocked and was by agreement with
Eritrea using the ports of Assab and Massawa; since the border
dispute with Eritrea flared, Ethiopia has used the port of Djibouti
for nearly all of its imports

Europa Island:
none; offshore anchorage only

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
Stanley

Faroe Islands:
Torshavn, Klaksvik, Tvoroyri, Runavik, Fuglafjorour

Fiji:
Lambasa, Lautoka, Levuka, Savusavu, Suva

Finland:
Hamina, Helsinki, Kokkola, Kotka, Loviisa, Oulu, Pori,
Rauma, Turku, Uusikaupunki, Varkaus

France:
Bordeaux, Boulogne, Cherbourg, Dijon, Dunkerque, La Pallice,
Le Havre, Lyon, Marseille, Mullhouse, Nantes, Paris, Rouen, Saint
Nazaire, Saint Malo, Strasbourg

French Guiana:
Cayenne, Degrad des Cannes, Saint-Laurent du Maroni

French Polynesia:
Mataura, Papeete, Rikitea, Uturoa

French Southern and Antarctic Lands:
none; offshore anchorage only

Gabon:
Cap Lopez, Kango, Lambarene, Libreville, Mayumba, Owendo,
Port-Gentil

Gambia, The:
Banjul

Gaza Strip:
Gaza

Georgia:
Bat'umi, P'ot'i, Sokhumi

Germany:
Berlin, Bonn, Brake, Bremen, Bremerhaven, Cologne, Dresden,
Duisburg, Emden, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Kiel, Luebeck, Magdeburg,
Mannheim, Rostock, Stuttgart

Ghana:
Takoradi, Tema

Gibraltar:
Gibraltar

Glorioso Islands:
none; offshore anchorage only

Greece:
Alexandroupolis, Elefsis, Irakleion (Crete), Kavala,
Kerkyra, Chalkis, Igoumenitsa, Lavrion, Patrai, Peiraiefs (Piraeus),
Thessaloniki, Volos

Greenland:
Aasiaat (Egedesminde), Ilulissat (Jakobshavn),
Kangerlussuaq, Nanortalik, Narsarsuaq, Nuuk (Godthab), Qaqortoq
(Julianehab), Sisimiut (Holsteinsborg), Tasiilaq (March 2001)

Grenada:
Grenville, Saint George's

Guadeloupe:
Basse-Terre, Gustavia (on Saint Barthelemy), Marigot,
Pointe-a-Pitre

Guam:
Apra Harbor

Guatemala:
Champerico, Puerto Barrios, Puerto Quetzal, San Jose,
Santo Tomas de Castilla

Guernsey:
Saint Peter Port, Saint Sampson

Guinea:
Boke, Conakry, Kamsar

Guinea-Bissau:
Bissau, Buba, Cacheu, Farim

Guyana:
Bartica, Georgetown, Linden, New Amsterdam, Parika

Haiti:
Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Jeremie, Les Cayes, Miragoane,
Port-au-Prince, Port-de-Paix, Saint-Marc

Heard Island and McDonald Islands:
none; offshore anchorage only

Holy See (Vatican City):
none

Honduras:
La Ceiba, Puerto Castilla, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo,
Tela, Puerto Lempira

Hong Kong:
Hong Kong

Howland Island:
none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one
small boat landing area along the middle of the west coast

Hungary:
Budapest, Dunaujvaros

Iceland:
Akureyri, Hornafjordur, Isafjordhur, Keflavik, Raufarhofn,
Reykjavik, Seydhisfjordhur, Straumsvik, Vestmannaeyjar

India:
Chennai (Madras), Cochin, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata
(Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Vishakhapatnam

Indian Ocean:
Chennai (Madras; India), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Durban
(South Africa), Jakarta (Indonesia), Kolkata (Calcutta; India)
Melbourne (Australia), Mumbai (Bombay; India), Richards Bay (South
Africa)

Indonesia:
Cilacap, Cirebon, Jakarta, Kupang, Makassar, Palembang,
Semarang, Surabaya

Iran:
Abadan (largely destroyed in fighting during 1980-88 war),
Ahvaz, Bandar 'Abbas, Bandar-e Anzali, Bushehr, Bandar-e Emam
Khomeyni, Bandar-e Lengeh, Bandar-e Mahshahr, Bandar-e Torkaman,
Chabahar (Bandar Beheshti), Jazireh-ye Khark, Jazireh-ye Lavan,
Jazireh-ye Sirri, Khorramshahr (limited operation since November
1992), Now Shahr

Iraq:
Umm Qasr, Khawr az Zubayr, and Al Basrah have limited
functionality

Ireland:
Arklow, Cork, Drogheda, Dublin, Foynes, Galway, Limerick,
New Ross, Waterford

Israel:
Ashdod, Ashqelon, Elat (Eilat), Hadera, Haifa, Tel Aviv-Yafo

Italy:
Augusta (Sicily), Bagnoli, Bari, Brindisi, Gela, Genoa, La
Spezia, Livorno, Milazzo, Naples, Porto Foxi, Porto Torres
(Sardinia), Salerno, Savona, Taranto, Trieste, Venice (2001)

Jamaica:
Alligator Pond, Discovery Bay, Kingston, Montego Bay, Ocho
Rios, Port Antonio, Rocky Point, Port Esquivel (Longswharf)

Jan Mayen:
none; offshore anchorage only

Japan:
Akita, Amagasaki, Chiba, Hachinohe, Hakodate, Higashi-Harima,
Himeji, Hiroshima, Kawasaki, Kinuura, Kobe, Kushiro, Mizushima,
Moji, Nagoya, Osaka, Sakai, Sakaide, Shimizu, Tokyo, Tomakomai

Jarvis Island:
none; offshore anchorage only; note - there is one
small boat landing area in the middle of the west coast and another
near the southwest corner of the island

Jersey:
Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier

Johnston Atoll:
Johnston Island

Jordan:
Al 'Aqabah

Juan de Nova Island:
none; offshore anchorage only

Kazakhstan:
Aqtau (Shevchenko), Atyrau (Gur'yev), Oskemen
(Ust-Kamenogorsk), Pavlodar, Semey (Semipalatinsk)

Kenya:
Kisumu, Lamu, Mombasa

Kingman Reef:
none; offshore anchorage only

Kiribati:
Banaba, Betio, English Harbor, Kanton

Korea, North:
Ch'ongjin, Haeju, Hungnam (Hamhung), Kimch'aek,
Kosong, Najin, Namp'o, Sinuiju, Songnim, Sonbong (formerly Unggi),
Ungsang, Wonsan

Korea, South:
Chinhae, Inch'on, Kunsan, Masan, Mokp'o, P'ohang,
Pusan, Tonghae-hang, Ulsan, Yosu

Kuwait:
Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Kuwait, Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina'
al Ahmadi, Mina' Su'ud

Kyrgyzstan:
Balykchy (Ysyk-Kol or Rybach'ye)

Laos:
none

Latvia:
Daugavpils, Liepaja, Riga, Ventspils

Lebanon:
Antilyas, Batroun, Beirut, Chekka, El Mina, Ez Zahrani,
Jbail, Jounie, Naqoura, Sidon, Tripoli, Tyre

Lesotho:
none

Liberia:
Buchanan, Greenville, Harper, Monrovia

Libya:
Al Khums, Banghazi, Darnah, Marsa al Burayqah, Misratah, Ra's
Lanuf, Tobruk, Tripoli, Zuwarah

Liechtenstein:
none

Lithuania:
Butinge, Kaunas, Klaipeda

Luxembourg:
Mertert

Macau:
Macau

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
none

Madagascar:
Antsiranana, Antsohimbondrona, Mahajanga, Toamasina,
Toliara

Malawi:
Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba

Malaysia:
Bintulu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuantan, Kuching, Kudat, Labuan,
Lahad Datu, Lumut, Miri, Pasir Gudang, Penang, Port Dickson, Port
Kelang, Sandakan, Sibu, Tanjung Berhala, Tanjung Kidurong, Tawau

Maldives:
Gan, Male

Mali:
Koulikoro

Malta:
Marsaxlokk, Valletta

Man, Isle of:
Castletown, Douglas, Peel, Ramsey

Marshall Islands:
Majuro

Martinique:
Fort-de-France, La Trinite

Mauritania:
Bogue, Kaedi, Nouadhibou, Nouakchott, Rosso

Mauritius:
Port Louis

Mayotte:
Dzaoudzi

Mexico:
Acapulco, Altamira, Coatzacoalcos, Ensenada, Guaymas, La
Paz, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Progreso, Salina Cruz,
Tampico, Topolobampo, Tuxpan, Veracruz

Micronesia, Federated States of:
Colonia (Yap), Kolonia (Pohnpei),
Lele, Moen

Midway Islands:
Sand Island

Moldova:
none

Monaco:
Monaco

Mongolia:
none

Montserrat:
Plymouth (abandoned), Little Bay (anchorages and ferry
landing), Carr's Bay

Morocco:
Agadir, El Jadida, Casablanca, El Jorf Lasfar, Kenitra,
Mohammedia, Nador, Rabat, Safi, Tangier; also Spanish-controlled
Ceuta and Melilla

Mozambique:
Beira, Inhambane, Maputo, Nacala, Pemba, Quelimane

Namibia:
Luderitz, Walvis Bay

Nauru:
Nauru

Navassa Island:
none; offshore anchorage only

Nepal:
none

Netherlands:
Amsterdam, Delfzijl, Dordrecht, Eemshaven, Groningen,
Haarlem, Ijmuiden, Maastricht, Rotterdam, Terneuzen, Utrecht,
Vlissingen

Netherlands Antilles:
Kralendijk, Philipsburg, Willemstad

New Caledonia:
Mueo, Noumea, Thio

New Zealand:
Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Tauranga, Wellington

Nicaragua:
Bluefields, Corinto, El Bluff, Puerto Cabezas, Puerto
Sandino, Rama, San Juan del Sur

Niger:
none

Nigeria:
Calabar, Lagos, Onne, Port Harcourt, Sapele, Warri

Niue:
none; offshore anchorage only

Norfolk Island:
none; loading jetties at Kingston and Cascade

Northern Mariana Islands:
Saipan, Tinian

Norway:
Bergen, Drammen, Floro, Hammerfest, Harstad, Haugesund,
Kristiansand, Larvik, Narvik, Oslo, Porsgrunn, Stavanger, Tromso,
Trondheim

Oman:
Matrah, Mina' al Fahl, Mina' Raysut

Pacific Ocean:
Bangkok (Thailand), Hong Kong, Kao-hsiung (Taiwan),
Los Angeles (US), Manila (Philippines), Pusan (South Korea), San
Francisco (US), Seattle (US), Shanghai (China), Singapore, Sydney
(Australia), Vladivostok (Russia), Wellington (NZ), Yokohama (Japan)

Pakistan:
Karachi, Port Muhammad bin Qasim

Palau:
Koror

Palmyra Atoll:
West Lagoon

Panama:
Balboa, Cristobal, Coco Solo, Manzanillo (part of Colon
area), Vacamonte

Papua New Guinea:
Kieta, Lae, Madang, Port Moresby, Rabaul

Paracel Islands:
small Chinese port facilities on Woody Island and
Duncan Island being expanded

Paraguay:
Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion

Peru:
Callao, Chimbote, Ilo, Matarani, Paita, Puerto Maldonado,
Salaverry, San Martin, Talara, Iquitos, Pucallpa, Yurimaguas

note: Iquitos, Pucallpa, and Yurimaguas are all on the upper
reaches of the Amazon and its tributaries

Philippines:
Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Guimaras Island,
Iligan, Iloilo, Jolo, Legaspi, Manila, Masao, Puerto Princesa, San
Fernando, Subic Bay, Zamboanga

Pitcairn Islands:
Bounty Bay

Poland:
Gdansk, Gdynia, Gliwice, Kolobrzeg, Szczecin, Swinoujscie,
Ustka, Warsaw, Wroclaw

Portugal:
Aveiro, Funchal (Madeira Islands), Horta (Azores),
Leixoes, Lisbon, Porto, Ponta Delgada (Azores), Praia da Vitoria
(Azores), Setubal, Viana do Castelo

Puerto Rico:
Guanica, Guayanilla, Guayama, Playa de Ponce, San Juan

Qatar:
Doha, Halul Island, Umm Sa'id (Musay'id)

Reunion:
Le Port, Pointe des Galets

Romania:
Braila, Constanta, Galati, Mangalia, Sulina, Tulcea

Russia:
Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Kaliningrad, Kazan', Khabarovsk,
Kholmsk, Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Murmansk, Nakhodka, Nevel'sk,
Novorossiysk, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, Saint Petersburg, Rostov,
Sochi, Tuapse, Vladivostok, Volgograd, Vostochnyy, Vyborg

Rwanda:
Cyangugu, Gisenyi, Kibuye

Saint Helena:
Georgetown (on Ascension), Jamestown

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
Basseterre, Charlestown

Saint Lucia:
Castries, Vieux Fort

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
Saint Pierre

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
Kingstown

Samoa:
Apia, Asau, Mulifanua, Salelologa

San Marino:
none

Sao Tome and Principe:
Santo Antonio, Sao Tome

Saudi Arabia:
Ad Dammam, Al Jubayl, Duba, Jiddah, Jizan, Rabigh,
Ra's al Khafji, Mishab, Ras Tanura, Yanbu' al Bahr, Madinat Yanbu'
al Sinaiyah

Senegal:
Dakar, Kaolack, Matam, Podor, Richard Toll, Saint-Louis,
Ziguinchor

Seychelles:
Victoria

Sierra Leone:
Bonthe, Freetown, Pepel

Singapore:
Singapore

Slovakia:
Bratislava, Komarno

Slovenia:
Izola, Koper, Piran

Solomon Islands:
Aola Bay, Honiara, Lofung, Noro, Viru Harbor,
Yandina

Somalia:
Bender Cassim (Boosaaso), Berbera, Chisimayu (Kismaayo),
Merca, Mogadishu

South Africa:
Cape Town, Durban, East London, Mosselbaai, Port
Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands:
Grytviken

Southern Ocean:
McMurdo, Palmer, and offshore anchorages in
Antarctica

note: few ports or harbors exist on the southern side of the
Southern Ocean; ice conditions limit use of most of them to short
periods in midsummer; even then some cannot be entered without
icebreaker escort; most antarctic ports are operated by government
research stations and, except in an emergency, are not open to
commercial or private vessels; vessels in any port south of 60
degrees south are subject to inspection by Antarctic Treaty observers

Spain:
Aviles, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cadiz, Cartagena, Castellon de la
Plana, Ceuta, Huelva, La Coruna, Las Palmas (Canary Islands),
Malaga, Melilla, Pasajes, Gijon, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary
Islands), Santander, Tarragona, Valencia, Vigo

Spratly Islands:
none; offshore anchorage only

Sri Lanka:
Colombo, Galle, Jaffna, Trincomalee

Sudan:
Juba, Khartoum, Kusti, Malakal, Nimule, Port Sudan, Sawakin

Suriname:
Albina, Moengo, New Nickerie, Paramaribo, Paranam,
Wageningen

Svalbard:
Barentsburg, Longyearbyen, Ny-Alesund, Pyramiden

Swaziland:
none

Sweden:
Gavle, Goteborg, Halmstad, Helsingborg, Hudiksvall, Kalmar,
Karlshamn, Malmo, Solvesborg, Stockholm, Sundsvall

Switzerland:
Basel

Syria:
Baniyas, Jablah, Latakia, Tartus

Tajikistan:
none

Tanzania:
Bukoba, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Kilwa Masoko, Lindi,
Mtwara, Mwanza, Pangani, Tanga, Wete, Zanzibar

Thailand:
Bangkok, Laem Chabang, Pattani, Phuket, Sattahip, Si
Racha, Songkhla

Togo:
Kpeme, Lome

Tokelau:
none; offshore anchorage only

Tonga:
Neiafu, Nuku'alofa, Pangai

Trinidad and Tobago:
Pointe-a-Pierre, Point Fortin, Point Lisas,
Port-of-Spain, Scarborough, Tembladora

Tromelin Island:
none; offshore anchorage only

Tunisia:
Bizerte, Gabes, La Goulette, Sfax, Sousse, Tunis, Zarzis

Turkey:
Gemlik, Hopa, Iskenderun, Istanbul, Izmir, Kocaeli (Izmit),
Icel (Mersin), Samsun, Trabzon

Turkmenistan:
Turkmenbashi

Turks and Caicos Islands:
Grand Turk, Providenciales

Tuvalu:
Funafuti, Nukufetau

Uganda:
Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell

Ukraine:
Berdyans'k, Illichivs'k, Izmayil, Kerch, Kherson, Kiev
(Kyyiv), Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Reni, Sevastopol'

United Arab Emirates:
'Ajman, Al Fujayrah, Das Island, Khawr Fakkan,
Mina' Jabal 'Ali, Mina' Khalid, Mina' Rashid, Mina' Saqr, Mina'
Zayid, Umm al Qaywayn

United Kingdom:
Aberdeen, Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Dover,
Falmouth, Felixstowe, Glasgow, Grangemouth, Hull, Leith, Liverpool,
London, Manchester, Peterhead, Plymouth, Portsmouth, Scapa Flow,
Southampton, Sullom Voe, Tees, Tyne

United States:
Anchorage, Baltimore, Boston, Charleston, Chicago,
Duluth, Hampton Roads, Honolulu, Houston, Jacksonville, Los Angeles,
New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Port Canaveral, Portland
(Oregon), Prudhoe Bay, San Francisco, Savannah, Seattle, Tampa,
Toledo

Uruguay:
Fray Bentos, Montevideo, Nueva Palmira, Paysandu, Punta del
Este, Colonia, Piriapolis

Uzbekistan:
Termiz (Amu Darya river)

Vanuatu:
Forari, Port-Vila, Santo (Espiritu Santo)

Venezuela:
Amuay, Bajo Grande, El Tablazo, La Guaira, La Salina,
Maracaibo, Matanzas, Palua, Puerto Cabello, Puerto la Cruz, Puerto
Ordaz, Puerto Sucre, Punta Cardon

Vietnam:
Cam Ranh, Da Nang, Haiphong, Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Long, Quy
Nhon, Nha Trang, Vinh, Vung Tau

Virgin Islands:
Charlotte Amalie, Christiansted, Cruz Bay, Port
Alucroix

Wake Island:
none; two offshore anchorages for large ships

Wallis and Futuna:
Leava, Mata-Utu

West Bank:
none

Western Sahara:
Ad Dakhla, Cabo Bojador, Laayoune (El Aaiun)

World:
Chiba, Houston, Kawasaki, Kobe, Marseille, Mina' al Ahmadi
(Kuwait), New Orleans, New York, Rotterdam, Yokohama

Yemen:
Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla, As Salif, Mocha, Nishtun

Yugoslavia:
Bar, Belgrade, Kotor, Novi Sad, Pancevo, Tivat, Zelenika

Zambia:
Mpulungu

Zimbabwe:
Binga, Kariba

Taiwan:
Chi-lung (Keelung), Hua-lien, Kao-hsiung, Su-ao, T'ai-chung

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@Radio broadcast stations

Afghanistan:
AM 7 (6 are inactive; the active station is in Kabul),
FM 1, shortwave 1 (broadcasts in Pushtu, Dari, Urdu, and English)
(1999)

Albania:
AM 16, FM 3, shortwave 2 (1999)

Algeria:
AM 25, FM 1, shortwave 8 (1999)

American Samoa:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Andorra:
AM 0, FM 15, shortwave 0 (1998)

Angola:
AM 34, FM 7, shortwave 9 (1999)

Anguilla:
AM 5, FM 6, shortwave 1 (1998)

Antarctica:
AM NA, FM 2, shortwave 1

note: information for US bases only (1998)

Antigua and Barbuda:
AM 4, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Argentina:
AM 260 (including 10 inactive stations), FM NA (probably
more than 1,000, mostly unlicensed), shortwave 6 (1998)

Armenia:
AM 9, FM 6, shortwave 1 (1998)

Aruba:
AM 4, FM 6, shortwave 0 (1998)

Australia:
AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998)

Austria:
AM 1, FM 61 (plus several hundred repeaters), shortwave 1
(1998)

Azerbaijan:
AM 10, FM 17, shortwave 1 (1998)

Bahamas, The:
AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Bahrain:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Bangladesh:
AM 12, FM 12, shortwave 2 (1999)

Barbados:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Belarus:
AM 28, FM 37, shortwave 11 (1998)

Belgium:
FM 79, AM 7, shortwave 1 (1998)

Belize:
AM 1, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)

Benin:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 4 (1998)

Bermuda:
AM 5, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Bhutan:
AM 0, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998)

Bolivia:
AM 171, FM 73, shortwave 77 (1999)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
AM 8, FM 16, shortwave 1 (1998)

Botswana:
AM 7, FM 15, shortwave 5 (1998)

Brazil:
AM 1,365, FM 296, shortwave 161 (of which 91 are collocated
with AM stations) (1999)

British Indian Ocean Territory:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

British Virgin Islands:
AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Brunei:
AM 3, FM 10, shortwave 0 (1998)

Bulgaria:
AM 24, FM 93, shortwave 2 (1998)

Burkina Faso:
AM 2, FM 17, shortwave 1 (1998)

Burma:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 3 (1998)

Burundi:
AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Cambodia:
AM 7, FM 3, shortwave 3 (1999)

Cameroon:
AM 11, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)

Canada:
AM 535, FM 53, shortwave 6 (1998)

Cape Verde:
AM 0, FM 11 (and 14 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998)

Cayman Islands:
AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (1998)

Central African Republic:
AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Chad:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 5 (1998)

Chile:
AM 180 (eight inactive), FM 64, shortwave 17 (one inactive)
(1998)

China:
AM 369, FM 259, shortwave 45 (1998)

Christmas Island:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Colombia:
AM 454, FM 34, shortwave 27 (1999)

Comoros:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
AM 3, FM 12, shortwave 1 (1999)

Congo, Republic of the:
AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 1 (1999)

Cook Islands:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Costa Rica:
AM 50, FM 43, shortwave 19 (1998)

Cote d'Ivoire:
AM 2, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)

Croatia:
AM 16, FM 98, shortwave 5 (1999)

Cuba:
AM 169, FM 55, shortwave 1 (1998)

Cyprus:
Greek Cypriot area: AM 7, FM 60, shortwave 1 (1998); Turkish
Cypriot area: AM 3, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)

Czech Republic:
AM 31, FM 304, shortwave 17 (2000)

Denmark:
AM 2, FM 355, shortwave 0 (1998)

Djibouti:
AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Dominica:
AM 3, FM 10, shortwave 0 (1998)

Dominican Republic:
AM 120, FM 56, shortwave 4 (1998)

Ecuador:
AM 392, FM 27, shortwave 29 (1998)

Egypt:
AM 42 (plus 15 repeaters), FM 14, shortwave 3 (1999)

El Salvador:
AM 61 (plus 24 repeaters), FM 30, shortwave 0 (1998)

Equatorial Guinea:
AM 0, FM 2, shortwave 4 (1998)

Eritrea:
AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 2 (2000)

Estonia:
AM 3 (all AM stations inactive since July 1998), FM 82,
shortwave 1 (1998)

Ethiopia:
AM 5, FM 0, shortwave 2 (1999)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
AM 1, FM 7, shortwave 0 (1998)

Faroe Islands:
AM 1, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Fiji:
AM 13, FM 40, shortwave 0 (1998)

Finland:
AM 2, FM 186, shortwave 1 (1998)

France:
AM 41, FM about 3,500 (this figure is an approximation and
includes many repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)

French Guiana:
AM 2, FM 14 (including 6 repeaters), shortwave 6
(including 5 repeaters) (1998)

French Polynesia:
AM 2, FM 14, shortwave 2 (1998)

Gabon:
AM 6, FM 7, shortwave 6 (1998)

Gambia, The:
AM 3, FM 5, shortwave 0 (2000)

Gaza Strip:
AM 0, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Georgia:
AM 7, FM 12, shortwave 4 (1998)

Germany:
AM 51, FM 767, shortwave 4 (1998)

Ghana:
AM 0, FM 18, shortwave 3 (1999)

Gibraltar:
AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (1998)

Greece:
AM 26, FM 88, shortwave 4 (1998)

Greenland:
AM 5, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)

Grenada:
AM 2, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Guadeloupe:
AM 1, FM 17, shortwave 0 (1998)

Guam:
AM 4, FM 7, shortwave 0 (1998)

Guatemala:
AM 130, FM 487, shortwave 15 (2000)

Guernsey:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Guinea:
AM 4, FM 8, shortwave 3 (1998)

Guinea-Bissau:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Guyana:
AM 3, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Haiti:
AM 41, FM 26, shortwave 0 (1999)

Holy See (Vatican City):
AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 2 (1998)

Honduras:
AM 241, FM 53, shortwave 12 (1998)

Hong Kong:
AM 7, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Hungary:
AM 17, FM 57, shortwave 3 (1998)

Iceland:
AM 3, FM about 70 (including repeaters), shortwave 1 (1998)

India:
AM 153, FM 91, shortwave 68 (1998)

Indonesia:
AM 678, FM 43, shortwave 82 (1998)

Iran:
AM 72, FM 5, shortwave 5 (1998)

Iraq:
AM 19 (5 are inactive), FM 51, shortwave 4 (1998)

Ireland:
AM 9, FM 106, shortwave 0 (1998)

Israel:
AM 23, FM 15, shortwave 2 (1998)

Italy:
AM about 100, FM about 4,600, shortwave 9 (1998)

Jamaica:
AM 10, FM 13, shortwave 0 (1998)

Jan Mayen:
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

note: there is one radio and meteorological station (1998)

Japan:
AM 190, FM 88, shortwave 24 (1999)

Jersey:
AM NA, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Johnston Atoll:
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

Jordan:
AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (1999)

Kazakhstan:
AM 60, FM 17, shortwave 9 (1998)

Kenya:
AM 24, FM 8, shortwave 6 (1999)

Kiribati:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998)

Korea, North:
AM 16, FM 14, shortwave 12 (1999)

Korea, South:
AM 106, FM 97, shortwave 6 (1999)

Kuwait:
AM 6, FM 11, shortwave 1 (1998)

Kyrgyzstan:
AM 12 (plus 10 repeater stations), FM 14, shortwave 2
(1998)

Laos:
AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 4 (1998)

Latvia:
AM 8, FM 56, shortwave 1 (1998)

Lebanon:
AM 20, FM 22, shortwave 4 (1998)

Lesotho:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)

Liberia:
AM 0, FM 6, shortwave 4 (1999)

Libya:
AM 17, FM 4, shortwave 3 (1998)

Liechtenstein:
AM 0, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Lithuania:
AM 3, FM 112, shortwave 1 (1998)

Luxembourg:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999)

Macau:
AM 0, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
AM 29, FM 20, shortwave
0 (1998)

Madagascar:
AM 2 (plus 8 repeater stations), FM 7, shortwave 5 (1998)

Malawi:
AM 9, FM 4 (plus 15 repeater stations), shortwave 3 (1998)

Malaysia:
AM 56, FM 31 (plus 13 repeater stations), shortwave 5
(1999)

Maldives:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998)

Mali:
AM 1, FM 14, shortwave 7 (1998)

Malta:
AM 1, FM 18, shortwave 6 (1999)

Man, Isle of:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Marshall Islands:
AM 3, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Martinique:
AM 0, FM 14, shortwave 0 (1998)

Mauritania:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)

Mauritius:
AM 5, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1998)

Mayotte:
AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Mexico:
AM 865, FM about 500, shortwave 13 (1999)

Micronesia, Federated States of:
AM 5, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Moldova:
AM 7, FM 50, shortwave 3 (1998)

Monaco:
AM 1, FM NA, shortwave 8 (1998)

Mongolia:
AM 7, FM 9, shortwave 4 (2001)

Montserrat:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 0 (1998)

Morocco:
AM 27, FM 25, shortwave 6 (1998)

Mozambique:
AM 13, FM 16, shortwave 12 (2000)

Namibia:
AM 2, FM 34, shortwave 5 (1998)

Nauru:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Nepal:
AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (January 2000)

Netherlands:
AM 4, FM 58, shortwave 3 (1998)

Netherlands Antilles:
AM 9, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

New Caledonia:
AM 1, FM 5, shortwave 0 (1998)

New Zealand:
AM 124, FM 290, shortwave 4 (1998)

Nicaragua:
AM 63, FM 32, shortwave 1 (1998)

Niger:
AM 5, FM 5, shortwave 4 (1998)

Nigeria:
AM 82, FM 35, shortwave 11 (1998)

Niue:
AM 1, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Norfolk Island:
AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Northern Mariana Islands:
AM 2, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Norway:
AM 5, FM at least 650, shortwave 1 (1998)

Oman:
AM 3, FM 9, shortwave 2 (1999)

Pakistan:
AM 27, FM 1, shortwave 21 (1998)

Palau:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 1 (1998)

Panama:
AM 101, FM 134, shortwave 0 (1998)

Papua New Guinea:
AM 8, FM 19, shortwave 28 (1998)

Paraguay:
AM 46, FM 27, shortwave 6 (three inactive) (1998)

Peru:
AM 472, FM 198, shortwave 189 (1999)

Philippines:
AM 366, FM 290, shortwave 3 (1999)

Pitcairn Islands:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Poland:
AM 14, FM 777, shortwave 1 (1998)

Portugal:
AM 47, FM 172 (many are repeaters), shortwave 2 (1998)

Puerto Rico:
AM 72, FM 17, shortwave 0 (1998)

Qatar:
AM 6, FM 5, shortwave 1 (1998)

Reunion:
AM 2, FM 55, shortwave 0 (1998)

Romania:
AM 40, FM 202, shortwave 3 (1998)

Russia:
AM 420, FM 447, shortwave 56 (1998)

Rwanda:
AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 1 (1998)

Saint Helena:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
AM 3, FM 1, shortwave 0 (1998)

Saint Lucia:
AM 2, FM 7 (plus 3 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
AM 1, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Samoa:
AM 1, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

San Marino:
AM 0, FM 3, shortwave 0 (1998)

Sao Tome and Principe:
AM 2, FM 4, shortwave 0 (1998)

Saudi Arabia:
AM 43, FM 31, shortwave 2 (1998)

Senegal:
AM 10, FM 14, shortwave 0 (1998)

Seychelles:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 2 (1998)

Sierra Leone:
AM 1, FM 9, shortwave 1 (1999)

Singapore:
AM 0, FM 16, shortwave 2 (1998)

Slovakia:
AM 15, FM 78, shortwave 2 (1998)

Slovenia:
AM 17, FM 160, shortwave 0 (1998)

Solomon Islands:
AM 3, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Somalia:
AM 0, FM 0, shortwave 4 (1988)

South Africa:
AM 14, FM 347 (plus 243 repeaters), shortwave 1 (1998)

South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands:
none

Spain:
AM 208, FM 715, shortwave 1 (1998)

Sri Lanka:
AM 26, FM 45, shortwave 1 (1998)

Sudan:
AM 12, FM 1, shortwave 1 (1998)

Suriname:
AM 4, FM 13, shortwave 1 (1998)

Svalbard:
AM 1, FM 1 (plus 2 repeaters), shortwave 0 (1998)

Swaziland:
AM 7, FM 6 (2000)

Sweden:
AM 1, FM 265, shortwave 1 (1998)

Switzerland:
AM 4, FM 113 (plus many low power stations), shortwave
2 (1998)

Syria:
AM 14, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)

Tajikistan:
AM 9, FM 6, shortwave 5 (1998)

Tanzania:
AM 12, FM 11, shortwave 2 (1998)

Thailand:
AM 204, FM 334, shortwave 6 (1999)

Togo:
AM 2, FM 9, shortwave 4 (1998)

Tokelau:
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

note: each atoll has a radio broadcast station of unknown type that
broadcasts shipping and weather reports (1998)

Tonga:
AM 1, FM 2, shortwave 1 (2001)

Trinidad and Tobago:
AM 2, FM 12, shortwave 0 (1998)

Tunisia:
AM 7, FM 20, shortwave 2 (1998)

Turkey:
AM 16, FM 72, shortwave 6 (1998)

Turkmenistan:
AM 16, FM 8, shortwave 2 (1998)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
AM 3 (one inactive), FM 6, shortwave 0
(1998)

Tuvalu:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

Uganda:
AM 19, FM 4, shortwave 5 (1998)

Ukraine:
AM 134, FM 289, shortwave 4 (1998)

United Arab Emirates:
AM 13, FM 7, shortwave 2 (1998)

United Kingdom:
AM 219, FM 431, shortwave 3 (1998)

United States:
AM 4,762, FM 5,542, shortwave 18 (1998)

Uruguay:
AM 94, FM 115, shortwave 14 (seven are inactive) (1998)

Uzbekistan:
AM 20, FM 7, shortwave 10 (1998)

Vanuatu:
AM 2, FM 2, shortwave 1 (1998)

Venezuela:
AM 201, FM NA (20 in Caracas), shortwave 11 (1998)

Vietnam:
AM 65, FM 7, shortwave 29 (1999)

Virgin Islands:
AM 5, FM 11, shortwave 0 (1998)

Wake Island:
AM 0, FM NA, shortwave NA

note: Armed Forces Radio/Television Service (AFRTS) radio service
provided by satellite (1998)

Wallis and Futuna:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0 (2000)

West Bank:
AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0

note: the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts from an
AM station in Ramallah on 675 kHz; numerous local, private stations
are reported to be in operation (2000)

Western Sahara:
AM 2, FM 0, shortwave 0 (1998)

World:
AM NA, FM NA, shortwave NA

Yemen:
AM 6, FM 1, shortwave 2 (1998)

Yugoslavia:
AM 113, FM 194, shortwave 2 (1998)

Zambia:
AM 19, FM 5, shortwave 4 (1998)

Zimbabwe:
AM 7, FM 20 (plus 17 repeater stations), shortwave 1 (1998)

Taiwan:
AM 218, FM 333, shortwave 50 (1999)

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@Radios

Afghanistan:
167,000 (1999)

Albania:
810,000 (1997)

Algeria:
7.1 million (1997)

American Samoa:
57,000 (1997)

Andorra:
16,000 (1997)

Angola:
630,000 (1997)

Anguilla:
3,000 (1997)

Antarctica:
NA

Antigua and Barbuda:
36,000 (1997)

Argentina:
24.3 million (1997)

Armenia:
850,000 (1997)

Aruba:
50,000 (1997)

Australia:
25.5 million (1997)

Austria:
6.08 million (1997)

Azerbaijan:
175,000 (1997)

Bahamas, The:
215,000 (1997)

Bahrain:
338,000 (1997)

Bangladesh:
6.15 million (1997)

Barbados:
237,000 (1997)

Belarus:
3.02 million (1997)

Belgium:
8.075 million (1997)

Belize:
133,000 (1997)

Benin:
620,000 (1997)

Bermuda:
82,000 (1997)

Bhutan:
37,000 (1997)

Bolivia:
5.25 million (1997)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
940,000 (1997)

Botswana:
237,000 (1997)

Brazil:
71 million (1997)

British Indian Ocean Territory:
NA

British Virgin Islands:
9,000 (1997)

Brunei:
329,000 (1998)

Bulgaria:
4.51 million (1997)

Burkina Faso:
370,000 (1997)

Burma:
4.2 million (1997)

Burundi:
440,000 (1997)

Cambodia:
1.34 million (1997)

Cameroon:
2.27 million (1997)

Canada:
32.3 million (1997)

Cape Verde:
73,000 (1997)

Cayman Islands:
36,000 (1997)

Central African Republic:
283,000 (1997)

Chad:
1.67 million (1997)

Chile:
5.18 million (1997)

China:
417 million (1997)

Christmas Island:
1,000 (1997)

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
300 (1992)

Colombia:
21 million (1997)

Comoros:
90,000 (1997)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
18.03 million (1997)

Congo, Republic of the:
341,000 (1997)

Cook Islands:
14,000 (1997)

Costa Rica:
980,000 (1997)

Cote d'Ivoire:
2.26 million (1997)

Croatia:
1.51 million (1997)

Cuba:
3.9 million (1997)

Cyprus:
Greek Cypriot area: 310,000 (1997); Turkish Cypriot area:
56,450 (1994)

Czech Republic:
3,159,134 (December 2000)

Denmark:
6.02 million (1997)

Djibouti:
52,000 (1997)

Dominica:
46,000 (1997)

Dominican Republic:
1.44 million (1997)

Ecuador:
4.15 million (1997)

Egypt:
20.5 million (1997)

El Salvador:
2.75 million (1997)

Equatorial Guinea:
180,000 (1997)

Eritrea:
345,000 (1997)

Estonia:
1.01 million (1997)

Ethiopia:
11.75 million (1997)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
1,000 (1997)

Faroe Islands:
26,000 (1997)

Fiji:
500,000 (1997)

Finland:
7.7 million (1997)

France:
55.3 million (1997)

French Guiana:
104,000 (1997)

French Polynesia:
128,000 (1997)

Gabon:
208,000 (1997)

Gambia, The:
196,000 (1997)

Gaza Strip:
NA; note - most Palestinian households have radios (1999)

Georgia:
3.02 million (1997)

Germany:
77.8 million (1997)

Ghana:
4.4 million (1997)

Gibraltar:
37,000 (1997)

Greece:
5.02 million (1997)

Greenland:
30,000 (1998 est.)

Grenada:
57,000 (1997)

Guadeloupe:
113,000 (1997)

Guam:
221,000 (1997)

Guatemala:
835,000 (1997)

Guernsey:
NA

Guinea:
357,000 (1997)

Guinea-Bissau:
49,000 (1997)

Guyana:
420,000 (1997)

Haiti:
415,000 (1997)

Holy See (Vatican City):
NA

Honduras:
2.45 million (1997)

Hong Kong:
4.45 million (1997)

Hungary:
7.01 million (1997)

Iceland:
260,000 (1997)

India:
116 million (1997)

Indonesia:
31.5 million (1997)

Iran:
17 million (1997)

Iraq:
4.85 million (1997)

Ireland:
2.55 million (1997)

Israel:
3.07 million (1997)

Italy:
50.5 million (1997)

Jamaica:
1.215 million (1997)

Japan:
120.5 million (1997)

Jersey:
NA

Jordan:
1.66 million (1997)

Kazakhstan:
6.47 million (1997)

Kenya:
3.07 million (1997)

Kiribati:
17,000 (1997)

Korea, North:
3.36 million (1997)

Korea, South:
47.5 million (1997)

Kuwait:
1.175 million (1997)

Kyrgyzstan:
520,000 (1997)

Laos:
730,000 (1997)

Latvia:
1.76 million (1997)

Lebanon:
2.85 million (1997)

Lesotho:
104,000 (1997)

Liberia:
790,000 (1997)

Libya:
1.35 million (1997)

Liechtenstein:
21,000 (1997)

Lithuania:
1.9 million (1997)

Luxembourg:
285,000 (1997)

Macau:
160,000 (1997)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
410,000 (1997)

Madagascar:
3.05 million (1997)

Malawi:
2.6 million (1997)

Malaysia:
10.9 million (1999)

Maldives:
35,000 (1999)

Mali:
570,000 (1997)

Malta:
255,000 (1997)

Man, Isle of:
NA

Marshall Islands:
NA

Martinique:
82,000 (1997)

Mauritania:
360,000 (1997)

Mauritius:
420,000 (1997)

Mayotte:
NA

Mexico:
31 million (1997)

Micronesia, Federated States of:
NA

Moldova:
3.22 million (1997)

Monaco:
34,000 (1997)

Mongolia:
155,900 (1999)

Montserrat:
7,000 (1997)

Morocco:
6.64 million (1997)

Mozambique:
730,000 (1997)

Namibia:
232,000 (1997)

Nauru:
7,000 (1997)

Nepal:
840,000 (1997)

Netherlands:
15.3 million (1996)

Netherlands Antilles:
217,000 (1997)

New Caledonia:
107,000 (1997)

New Zealand:
3.75 million (1997)

Nicaragua:
1.24 million (1997)

Niger:
680,000 (1997)

Nigeria:
23.5 million (1997)

Niue:
1,000 (1997)

Norfolk Island:
2,500 (1996)

Northern Mariana Islands:
NA

Norway:
4.03 million (1997)

Oman:
1.4 million (1997)

Pakistan:
13.5 million (1997)

Palau:
12,000 (1997)

Panama:
815,000 (1997)

Papua New Guinea:
410,000 (1997)

Paraguay:
925,000 (1997)

Peru:
6.65 million (1997)

Philippines:
11.5 million (1997)

Pitcairn Islands:
NA

Poland:
20.2 million (1997)

Portugal:
3.02 million (1997)

Puerto Rico:
2.7 million (1997)

Qatar:
256,000 (1997)

Reunion:
173,000 (1997)

Romania:
7.2 million (1997)

Russia:
61.5 million (1997)

Rwanda:
601,000 (1997)

Saint Helena:
3,000 (1997)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
28,000 (1997)

Saint Lucia:
111,000 (1997)

Saint Pierre and Miquelon:
4,000 (1997)

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines:
77,000 (1997)

Samoa:
178,000 (1997)

San Marino:
16,000 (1997)

Sao Tome and Principe:
38,000 (1997)

Saudi Arabia:
6.25 million (1997)

Senegal:
1.24 million (1997)

Seychelles:
42,000 (1997)

Sierra Leone:
1.12 million (1997)

Singapore:
2.6 million (2000)

Slovakia:
3.12 million (1997)

Slovenia:
805,000 (1997)

Solomon Islands:
57,000 (1997)

Somalia:
470,000 (1997)

South Africa:
13.75 million (1997)

Spain:
13.1 million (1997)

Sri Lanka:
3.85 million (1997)

Sudan:
7.55 million (1997)

Suriname:
300,000 (1997)

Svalbard:
NA

Swaziland:
155,000 (1997)

Sweden:
8.25 million (1997)

Switzerland:
7.1 million (1997)

Syria:
4.15 million (1997)

Tajikistan:
1.291 million (1991)

Tanzania:
8.8 million (1997)

Thailand:
13.96 million (1997)

Togo:
940,000 (1997)

Tokelau:
1,000 (1997)

Tonga:
61,000 (1997)

Trinidad and Tobago:
680,000 (1997)

Tunisia:
2.06 million (1997)

Turkey:
11.3 million (1997)

Turkmenistan:
1.225 million (1997)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
8,000 (1997)

Tuvalu:
4,000 (1997)

Uganda:
2.6 million (1997)

Ukraine:
45.05 million (1997)

United Arab Emirates:
820,000 (1997)

United Kingdom:
84.5 million (1997)

United States:
575 million (1997)

Uruguay:
1.97 million (1997)

Uzbekistan:
10.8 million (1997)

Vanuatu:
62,000 (1997)

Venezuela:
10.75 million (1997)

Vietnam:
8.2 million (1997)

Virgin Islands:
107,000 (1997)

Wallis and Futuna:
NA

West Bank:
NA; note - most Palestinian households have radios (1999)

Western Sahara:
56,000 (1997)

World:
NA

Yemen:
1.05 million (1997)

Yugoslavia:
3.15 million (1997)

Zambia:
1.03 million (1997)

Zimbabwe:
1.14 million (1997)

Taiwan:
16 million (1994)

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@Railways

Afghanistan:
total: 24.6 km

broad gauge: 9.6 km 1.524-m gauge from Gushgy (Turkmenistan) to
Towraghondi; 15 km 1.524-m gauge from Termiz (Uzbekistan) to
Kheyrabad transshipment point on south bank of Amu Darya

Albania:
total: 447 km

standard gauge: 447 km 1.435-m gauge (2001)

Algeria:
total: 4,820 km

standard gauge: 3,664 km 1.435-m gauge (301 km electrified; 215 km
double track)

narrow gauge: 1,156 km 1.055-m gauge (1996)

American Samoa:
0 km

Andorra:
0 km

Angola:
total: 2,771 km (inland, much of the track is unusable
because of land mines still in place from the civil war)

narrow gauge: 2,648 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2000)

Anguilla:
0 km

Antigua and Barbuda:
total: 77 km

narrow gauge: 64 km 0.760-m gauge; 13 km 0.610-m gauge (used almost
exclusively for handling sugarcane)

Argentina:
total: 33,744 km (167 km electrified)

broad gauge: 20,594 km 1.676-m gauge (141 km electrified)

standard gauge: 2,739 km 1.435-m gauge (26 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 10,154 km 1.000-m gauge; 257 km 0.750-m gauge (2000)

Armenia:
total: 852 km in common carrier service; does not include
industrial lines

broad gauge: 852 km 1.520-m gauge (779 km electrified) (2001)

Aruba:
0 km

Australia:
total: 33,819 km (2,540 km electrified)

broad gauge: 3,719 km 1.600-m gauge

standard gauge: 15,422 km 1.435-m gauge

narrow gauge: 14,506 km 1.067-m gauge

dual gauge: 172 km NA gauges (1999)

Austria:
total: 6,095.2 km (3,643.3 km electrified)

standard gauge: 5,564.2 km 1.435-m gauge (3,521.2 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 497.1 km (33.9 km 1.000-m gauge - 28.1 km
electrified, 497.1 km 0.760-m gauge - 94 km electrified) (2001)

Azerbaijan:
total: 2,125 km in common carrier service; does not
include industrial lines

broad gauge: 2,125 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (1993)

Bahamas, The:
0 km

Bahrain:
0 km

Bangladesh:
total: 2,745 km

broad gauge: 923 km 1.676-m gauge

narrow gauge: 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2000)

Barbados:
0 km

Belarus:
total: 5,523 km

broad gauge: 5,523 km 1.520-m gauge (875 km electrified) (2000)

Belgium:
total: 3,437 km (2,446 km electrified; 2,563 km double
track)

standard gauge: 3,437 km 1.435-m gauge (1998)

Belize:
0 km

Benin:
total: 578 km (single track)

narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge (2000)

Bermuda:
0 km

Bhutan:
0 km

Bolivia:
total: 3,691 km (single track)

narrow gauge: 3,652 km 1.000-m gauge; 39 km 0.760-m gauge (13 km
electrified) (1995)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
total: 1,021 km (electrified 795 km;
operating as diesel or steam until grids are repaired)

standard gauge: 1,021 km 1.435-m gauge; note - many segments still
need repair and/or reconstruction (2000)

Botswana:
total: 888 km

narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2000)

Brazil:
total: 30,539 km (2,129 km electrified); note - excludes
urban rail

broad gauge: 5,679 km 1.600-m gauge (1199 km electrified)

standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge

narrow gauge: 24,666 km 1.000-m gauge (930 km electrified)

dual gauge: 336 km 1.000-m and 1.600-m gauges (three rails) (1999
est.)

British Virgin Islands:
0 km

Brunei:
total: 13 km (private line)

narrow gauge: 13 km 0.610-m gauge

Bulgaria:
total: 4,294 km

standard gauge: 4,049 km 1.435-m gauge (2,710 km electrified; 917
km double track)

narrow gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge (1998)

Burkina Faso:
total: 622 km (517 km from Ouagadougou to the Cote
d'Ivoire border and 105 km from Ouagadougou to Kaya)

narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

Burma:
total: 3,991 km

narrow gauge: 3,991 km 1.000-m gauge

Burundi:
0 km

Cambodia:
total: 603 km

narrow gauge: 603 km 1.000-m gauge

Cameroon:
total: 1,104 km

narrow gauge: 1,104 km 1.000-m gauge (1995 est.)

Canada:
total: 36,114 km; note - there are two major
transcontinental freight railway systems: Canadian National
(privatized November 1995) and Canadian Pacific Railway; passenger
service provided by government-operated firm VIA, which has no
trackage of its own

standard gauge: 36,114 km 1.435-m gauge (156 km electrified) (1998)

Cape Verde:
0 km

Cayman Islands:
0 km

Central African Republic:
0 km

Chad:
0 km

Chile:
total: 6,701 km

broad gauge: 2,831 km 1.676-m gauge (1317 km electrified)

narrow gauge: 117 km 1.067-m gauge (28 km electrified); 3,754 km
1.000-m gauge (37 km electrified) (2000)

China:
total: 67,524 km (including 5,400 km of provincial "local"
rails)

standard gauge: 63,924 km 1.435-m gauge (13,362 km electrified;
20,250 km double track)

narrow gauge: 3,600 km 0.750-m and 1.000-m gauge local industrial
lines (1998 est.)

note: a new total of 68,000 km was estimated for early 1999 to take
new construction programs into account (1999)

Christmas Island:
24 km to serve phosphate mines

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
0 km

Colombia:
total: 3,304 km

standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge (connects Cerrejon coal mines
to maritime port at Bahia de Portete)

narrow gauge: 3,154 km 0.914-m gauge (major sections not in use)
(2000)

Comoros:
0 km

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
total: 5,138 km (1995)

note: severely reduced route-distance in use because of damage to
facilities by civil strife

narrow gauge: 3,987 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km
1.000-m gauge; 1,026 km 0.600-m gauge (2000)

Congo, Republic of the:
total: 894 km

narrow gauge: 894 km 1.067-m gauge (2000)

Cook Islands:
0 km

Costa Rica:
total: 950 km

narrow gauge: 950 km 1.067-m gauge (260 km electrified) (2000)

Cote d'Ivoire:
total: 660 km

narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000-meter gauge; 25 km double track

note: an additional 600 km of this railroad extends into Burkina
Faso, ending at Kaya, north of Ouagadougou (2000)

Croatia:
total: 2,296 km

standard gauge: 2,296 km 1.435-m gauge (983 km electrified) (2000)

Cuba:
total: 11,969 km

standard gauge: 4,807 km 1.435-m gauge (147 km electrified)

note: in addition to the 4,807 km of standard gauge track in public
use, 7,162 km of track is in private use by sugar plantations; about
90% of the private use track is standard gauge and the rest is
narrow gauge (2000)

Cyprus:
0 km

Czech Republic:
total: 9,444 km

standard gauge: 9,350 km 1.435-m standard gauge (2,843 km
electrified; 1,929 km double track)

narrow gauge: 94 km 0.760-m narrow gauge (2000)

Denmark:
total: 2,859 km (508 km privately owned and operated)

standard gauge: 2,859 km 1.435-m gauge (600 km electrified; 760 km
double track) (1998)

Djibouti:
total: 100 km (Djibouti segment of the Addis
Ababa-Djibouti railroad)

narrow gauge: 100 km 1.000-m gauge

note: Djibouti and Ethiopia plan to revitalize the century-old
railroad that links their capitals by 2003

Dominica:
0 km

Dominican Republic:
total: 757 km

standard gauge: 375 km 1.435-m gauge (Central Romana Railroad)

narrow gauge: 142 km 0.762-m gauge (Dominican Republic Government
Railway)

note: 240 km operated by sugar companies in various gauges
(0.558-m, 0.762-m, 1.067-m gauges) (2000)

Ecuador:
total: 965 km

narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge (2000)

Egypt:
total: 4,955 km

standard gauge: 4,955 km 1,435-m gauge (42 km electrified; 1,560 km
double track) (2000)

El Salvador:
total: 562 km

narrow gauge: 562 km 0.914-m gauge

note: length of route which is operational is reduced to 283 km by
disuse and lack of maintainance (2001)

Equatorial Guinea:
total: 0 km

Eritrea:
total: 317 km

narrow gauge: 317 km 0.950-m gauge (1999)

note: links Ak'ordat and Asmara with the port of Massawa;
nonoperational since 1978 except for about a 5 km stretch that was
reopened in Massawa in 1994; rehabilitation of the remainder and of
the rolling stock is under way

Estonia:
total: 1,018 km common carrier lines only; does not
include dedicated industrial lines

broad gauge: 1,018 km 1.520-m gauge (132 km electrified) (1995)

Ethiopia:
total: 681 km (Ethiopian segment of the Addis
Ababa-Djibouti railroad)

narrow gauge: 681 km 1.000-m gauge

note: in April 1998, Djibouti and Ethiopia announced plans to
revitalize the century-old railroad that links their capitals; since
May 1998 Ethiopia has expended considerable effort to repair and
maintain the lines

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
0 km

Faroe Islands:
0 km

Fiji:
total: 597 km; note - belongs to the government-owned Fiji
Sugar Corporation

narrow gauge: 597 km 0.610-m gauge (1995)

Finland:
total: 5,865 km

broad gauge: 5,865 km 1.524-m gauge (2,192 km electrified; 480 km
double or multiple track) (1998)

France:
total: 31,939 km (31,939 km are operated by French National
Railways (SNCF); 14,176 km of SNCF routes are electrified and 12,132
km are double- or multiple-tracked)

standard gauge: 31,840 km 1.435-m gauge

narrow gauge: 99 km 1.000-m gauge (1998)

French Guiana:
0 km (1995)

French Polynesia:
0 km

Gabon:
total: 649 km (Gabon State Railways or OCTRA)

standard gauge: 649 km 1.435-m gauge; single track (1994)

Gambia, The:
0 km

Gaza Strip:
total: NA km; note - one line, abandoned and in
disrepair, little trackage remains

Georgia:
total: 1,583 km in common carrier service; does not
include industrial lines

broad gauge: 1,583 km 1.520-m gauge (1993)

Germany:
total: 40,826 km including at least 14,253 km electrified
and 14,768 km double- or multiple-tracked (1998)

note: since privatization in 1994, Deutsche Bahn AG (DBAG) no
longer publishes details of the tracks it owns; in addition to the
DBAG system there are 102 privately owned railway companies which
own an approximate 3,000 km to 4,000 km of the total tracks

Ghana:
total: 953 km (undergoing major rehabilitation)

narrow gauge: 953 km 1.067-m gauge (32 km double track) (1997 est.)

Gibraltar:
total: NA km; 1.000-m gauge system in dockyard area only

Greece:
total: 2,548 km

standard gauge: 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge (36 km electrified; 23 km
double track)

narrow gauge: 961 km 1.000-m gauge; 22 km 0.750-m gauge (a
rack-type railway for steep grades)

Greenland:
0 km

Grenada:
0 km

Guadeloupe:
total: NA km; privately owned, narrow-gauge plantation
lines

Guam:
0 km

Guatemala:
total: 884 km (102 km privately owned)

narrow gauge: 884 km 0.914-m gauge (single track)

Guernsey:
0 km

Guinea:
total: 1,086 km

standard gauge: 279 km 1.435-m gauge

narrow gauge: 807 km 1.000-m gauge (includes 662 km in common
carrier service from Kankan to Conakry)

Guinea-Bissau:
0 km

Guyana:
total: 187 km (all dedicated to ore transport)

standard gauge: 139 km 1.435-m gauge

narrow gauge: 48 km 0.914-m gauge

Haiti:
total: 40 km (single track; privately owned industrial line)
- closed in early 1990s

narrow gauge: 40 km 0.760-m gauge

Holy See (Vatican City):
total: 862 m; note - a spur of the Italian
Railways system, serving Rome's Saint Peter's station

standard gauge: 862 m 1.435-m gauge (1999)

Honduras:
total: 595 km

narrow gauge: 349 km 1.067-m gauge; 246 km 0.914-m gauge (1999)

Hong Kong:
total: 34 km

standard gauge: 34 km 1.435-m gauge (all electrified) (1996 est.)

Hungary:
total: 7,606 km

broad gauge: 36 km 1.524-m gauge

standard gauge: 7,394 km 1.435-m gauge (2,270 km electrified; 1,236
km double track)

narrow gauge: 176 km 0.760-m gauge (1998)

note: Hungary and Austria jointly manage the cross-border
standard-gauge railway connecting Gyor, Sopron, and Ebenfurt (Gysev
railroad) a distance of about 101 km in Hungary and 65 km in Austria

Iceland:
0 km

India:
total: 62,915 km (12,307 km electrified; 12,617 km double
track)

broad gauge: 40,620 km 1.676-m gauge

narrow gauge: 18,501 km 1.000-m gauge; 3,794 km 0.762-m and 0.610-m
gauge (1998 est.)

Indonesia:
total: 6,458 km

narrow gauge: 5,961 km 1.067-m gauge (101 km electrified; 101 km
double track); 497 km 0.750-m gauge (1995)

Iran:
total: 5,600 km

broad gauge: 94 km 1.676-m gauge

standard gauge: 5,506 km 1.435-m gauge (146 km electrified)

note: broad gauge track is employed at the borders with Azerbaijan
and Turkmenistan which have broad-gauge rail systems (2001)

Iraq:
total: 2,032 km

standard gauge: 2,032 km 1.435-m gauge

note: rail link between Iraq and Syria restored in 2000 after 19
years

Ireland:
total: 1,947 km

broad gauge: 1,947 km 1.600-m gauge (38 km electrified; 485 km
double track) (1998)

Israel:
total: 610 km

standard gauge: 610 km 1.435-m gauge (1996)

Italy:
total: 19,394 km

standard gauge: 18,071 km 1.435-m gauge; Italian Railways (FS)
operates 16,014 km of the total standard gauge routes (11,322 km
electrified)

narrow gauge: 112 km 1.000-m gauge (112 km electrified); 1,211 km
0.950-m gauge (153 km electrified) (1998)

Jamaica:
total: 370 km

standard gauge: 370 km 1.435-m gauge; note - 207 km belong to the
Jamaica Railway Corporation in common carrier service, but are no
longer operational; the remaining track is privately owned and used
to transport bauxite

Japan:
total: 23,670.7 km

standard gauge: 2,893.1 km 1.435-m gauge (entirely electrified)

narrow gauge: 89.8 km 1.372-m gauge (89.8 km electrified); 20,656.8
km 1.067-m gauge (10,383.6 km electrified); 31 km 0.762-m gauge (3.6
km electrified) (1994)

Jersey:
0 km

Jordan:
total: 677 km

narrow gauge: 677 km 1.050-m gauge (2000)

Juan de Nova Island:
total: NA km; short line going to a jetty

Kazakhstan:
total: 14,400 km in common carrier service; does not
include industrial lines

broad gauge: 14,400 km 1.520-m gauge (3,299 km electrified) (1997)

Kenya:
total: 2,778 km

narrow gauge: 2,778 km 1.000-m gauge

note: the line connecting Nairobi with the port of Mombasa is the
most important in the country

Kiribati:
0 km

Korea, North:
total: 5,000 km

standard gauge: 4,095 km 1.435-m gauge (3,500 km electrified; 159
km double track)

narrow gauge: 665 km 0.762-m gauge

dual gauge: 240 km 1.435-m and 1.600-m gauges (four rails
interlaced) (1996 est.)

Korea, South:
total: 6,240 km

standard gauge: 6,240 km 1.435-m gauge (525 km electrified) (1998
est.)

Kuwait:
0 km

Kyrgyzstan:
total: 370 km in common carrier service; does not
include industrial lines

broad gauge: 370 km 1.520-m gauge (1990)

Laos:
0 km

Latvia:
total: 2,412 km

broad gauge: 2,379 km 1.520-m gauge (271 km electrified) (1992)

narrow gauge: 33 km 0.750-m gauge (1994)

Lebanon:
total: 399 km (mostly unusable because of damage in civil
war)

standard gauge: 317 km 1.435-m

narrow gauge: 82 km (1999)

Lesotho:
total: 2.6 km; note - owned by, operated by, and included
in the statistics of South Africa

narrow gauge: 2.6 km 1.067-m gauge (1995)

Liberia:
total: 490 km (328 km single track); note - three rail
systems owned and operated by foreign steel and financial interests
in conjunction with the Liberian Government; one of these, the Lamco
Railroad, closed in 1989 after iron ore production ceased; the other
two were shut down by the civil war; large sections of the rail
lines have been dismantled; approximately 60 km of railroad track
was exported for scrap

standard gauge: 345 km 1.435-m gauge

narrow gauge: 145 km 1.067-m gauge

Libya:
note: Libya has had no railroad in operation since 1965, all
previous systems having been dismantled; current plans are to
construct a 1.435-m standard gauge line from the Tunisian frontier
to Tripoli and Misratah, then inland to Sabha, center of a
mineral-rich area, but there has been little progress; other plans
made jointly with Egypt would establish a rail line from As Sallum,
Egypt, to Tobruk with completion originally set for mid-1994; Libya
signed contracts with two private companies - Bahne of Egypt and Jez
Sistemas Ferroviarios of Spain - in 1998 for the supply of crossings
and pointwork (1001)

Liechtenstein:
total: 18.5 km; note - owned, operated, and included
in statistics of Austrian Federal Railways

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