The 2010 CIA World Factbook

Part 366

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Wake Island no indigenous inhabitants note: approximately 150 military personnel and civilian contractors maintain and operate the airfield and communications facilities (2009)

Wallis and Futuna 15,343 (July 2010 est.)

West Bank 2,514,845 (July 2010 est.) note: approximately 296,700 Israeli settlers live in the West Bank (2009 est.); approximately 192,800 Israeli settlers live in East Jerusalem (2008 est.)

Western Sahara 491,519 note: estimate is based on projections by age, sex, fertility, mortality, and migration; fertility and mortality are based on data from neighboring countries (July 2010 est.)

World 6,768,181,146 (July 2010 est.)

Yemen 23,495,361 (July 2010 est.)

Zambia 13,460,305 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)

Zimbabwe 11,651,858 note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality, higher death rates, lower population growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2010 est.)

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Field Listing :: Ports and terminals

This entry lists major ports and terminals primarily on the basis of the amount of cargo tonnage shipped through the facilities on an annual basis. In some instances, the number of containers handled or ship visits were also considered. Country

Ports and terminals

Afghanistan Kheyrabad, Shir Khan

Albania Durres, Sarande, Shengjin, Vlore

Algeria Algiers, Annaba, Arzew, Bejaia, Djendjene, Jijel, Mostaganem, Oran, Skikda

American Samoa Pago Pago

Angola Cabinda, Lobito, Luanda, Namibe

Anguilla Blowing Point, Road Bay

Antarctica McMurdo Station; most coastal stations have sparse and intermittent offshore anchorages; a few stations have basic wharf facilities

Antigua and Barbuda Saint John's

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

Argentina Arroyo Seco, Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires, La Plata, Punta Colorada, Rosario, San Lorenzo-San Martin

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 Brisbane, Cairns, Dampier, Darwin, Fremantle, Gladstone, Geelong, Hay Point, Hobart, Jervis Bay, Melbourne, Newcastle, Port Adelaide, Port Dalrymple, Port Hedland, Port Kembla, Port Lincoln, Port Walcott, Sydney

Austria Enns, Krems, Linz, Vienna

Azerbaijan Baku (Baki)

Bahamas, The Freeport, Nassau, South Riding Point

Bahrain Mina' Salman, Sitrah

Bangladesh Chittagong, Mongla Port

Barbados Bridgetown

Belarus Mazyr

Belgium cargo ports (tonnage): Antwerp, Gent, Liege, Zeebrugge container ports (TEUs): Antwerp (8,662,891), Zeebrugge (2,209,715)

Belize Belize City, Big Creek

Benin Cotonou

Bermuda Hamilton, Ireland Island, Saint George

Bolivia Puerto Aguirre (inland port on the Paraguay/Parana waterway at the Bolivia/Brazil border); 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 River), Orasje

Bouvet Island none; offshore anchorage only

Brazil cargo ports (tonnage): Ilha Grande (Gebig), Paranagua, Rio Grande, Santos, Sao Sebastiao, Tubarao container ports (TEUs): Santos (2,677,839), Itajai (693,580)

British Indian Ocean Territory Diego Garcia

British Virgin Islands Road Harbor

Brunei Lumut, Muara, Seria

Bulgaria Burgas, Varna

Burma Moulmein, Rangoon, Sittwe

Burundi Bujumbura

Cambodia Phnom Penh, Kampong Saom (Sihanoukville)

Cameroon Douala, Garoua, Limboh Terminal

Canada Fraser River Port, Halifax, Hamilton, Montreal, Port-Cartier, Quebec City, Saint John (New Brunswick), Sept-Isles, Vancouver

Cape Verde Porto Grande

Cayman Islands Cayman Brac, George Town

Central African Republic Bangui, Nola, Salo, Nzinga

Chile Coronel, Huasco, Lirquen, Puerto Ventanas, San Antonio, San Vicente, Valparaiso

China Dalian, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Tianjin

Christmas Island Flying Fish Cove

Clipperton Island none; offshore anchorage only

Cocos (Keeling) Islands Port Refuge

Colombia Barranquilla, Buenaventura, Cartagena, Puerto Bolivar, Santa Marta, Turbo

Comoros Mayotte, Mutsamudu

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

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

Cook Islands Avatiu

Coral Sea Islands none; offshore anchorage only

Costa Rica Caldera, Puerto Limon

Cote d'Ivoire Abidjan, Espoir, San-Pedro

Croatia Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibernik, Split, Vukovar (on Danube River)

Cuba Antilla, Cienfuegos, Guantanamo, Havana, Matanzas, Mariel, Nuevitas Bay, Santiago de Cuba, Tanamo

Curacao Bullen Baai, Fuik Bay, Willemstad

Cyprus area under government control: Larnaca, Limassol, Vasilikos;; area administered by Turkish Cypriots: Famagusta, Kyrenia

Czech Republic Decin, Prague, Usti nad Labem

Denmark Aalborg, Aarhus, Copenhagen, Ensted, Esbjerg, Fredericia, Kalundborg

Djibouti Djibouti

Dominica Portsmouth, Roseau

Dominican Republic Andres (Boca Chica), Puerto Haina, Puerto Plata, Santo Domingo

Ecuador Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, Manta, Puerto Bolivar

Egypt Ayn Sukhnah, Alexandria, Damietta, El Dekheila, Port Said, Sidi Kurayr, Suez

El Salvador Acajutla, Puerto Cutuco

Equatorial Guinea Bata, Luba, Malabo (2010)

Eritrea Assab, Massawa

Estonia Kuivastu, Kunda, Muuga, Parnu Reid, Sillamae, Tallinn

Ethiopia Ethiopia is landlocked and uses ports of Djibouti in Djibouti and Berbera in Somalia

European Union Antwerp (Belgium), Barcelona (Spain), Braila (Romania), Bremen (Germany), Burgas (Bulgaria), Constanta (Romania), Copenhagen (Denmark), Galati (Romania), Gdansk (Poland), Hamburg (Germany), Helsinki (Finland), Las Palmas (Canary Islands, Spain), Le Havre (France), Lisbon (Portugal), London (UK), Marseille (France), Naples (Italy), Peiraiefs or Piraeus (Greece), Riga (Latvia), Rotterdam (Netherlands), Stockholm (Sweden), Talinn (Estonia), Tulcea (Romania), Varna (Bulgaria)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Stanley

Faroe Islands Fuglafjordur, Torshavn, Vagur

Fiji Lautoka, Levuka, Suva

Finland Helsinki, Kotka, Naantali, Porvoo, Raahe, Rauma

France Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes, Paris, Rouen

French Polynesia Papeete

French Southern and Antarctic Lands none; offshore anchorage only

Gabon Gamba, Libreville, Lucinda, Owendo, Port-Gentil

Gambia, The Banjul

Gaza Strip Gaza

Georgia Bat'umi, P'ot'i

Germany Bremen, Bremerhaven, Duisburg, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Lubeck, Neuss-Dusseldorf, Rostock, Wilhemshaven

Ghana Takoradi, Tema

Gibraltar Gibraltar

Greece Agioi Theodoroi, Aspropyrgos, Pachi, Piraeus, Thessaloniki

Greenland Sisimiut

Grenada Saint George's

Guam Apra Harbor

Guatemala Puerto Quetzal, Santo Tomas de Castilla

Guernsey Braye Bay, Saint Peter Port

Guinea Conakry, Kamsar

Guinea-Bissau Bissau, Buba, Cacheu, Farim

Guyana Georgetown

Haiti Cap-Haitien, Gonaives, Jacmel, Port-au-Prince

Heard Island and McDonald Islands none; offshore anchorage only

Honduras La Ceiba, Puerto Cortes, San Lorenzo, Tela

Hong Kong Hong Kong

Hungary Budapest, Dunaujvaros, Gyor-Gonyu, Csepel, Baja, Mohacs

Iceland Grundartangi, Hafnarfjordur, Reykjavik

India Chennai, Jawaharal Nehru, Kandla, Kolkata (Calcutta), Mumbai (Bombay), Sikka, 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 Banjarmasin, Belawan, Kotabaru, Krueg Geukueh, Palembang, Panjang, Sungai Pakning, Tanjung Perak, Tanjung Priok

Iran Assaluyeh, Bandar Abbas, Bandar-e-Eman Khomeyni

Iraq Al Basrah, Khawr az Zubayr, Umm Qasr

Ireland Cork, Dublin, Shannon Foynes, Waterford

Isle of Man Douglas, Ramsey

Israel Ashdod, Elat (Eilat), Hadera, Haifa

Italy Augusta, Cagliari, Genoa, Livorno, Santa Panagia (Melilli), Taranto, Trieste, Venice

Jamaica Discovery Bay (Port Rhoades), Kingston, Montego Bay, Port Antonio, Port Esquivel, Port Kaiser, Rocky Point

Jan Mayen none; offshore anchorage only

Japan Chiba, Kawasaki, Kobe, Mizushima, Moji, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo, Tomakomai, Yokohama

Jersey Gorey, Saint Aubin, Saint Helier

Jordan Al 'Aqabah

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

Kenya Kisumu, Mombasa

Kiribati Betio (Tarawa Atoll), Canton Island, English Harbor

Korea, North Ch'ongjin, Haeju, Hungnam (Hamhung), Namp'o, Senbong, Songnim, Sonbong (formerly Unggi), Wonsan

Korea, South Inch'on, P'ohang, Pusan, Ulsan, Yosu

Kuwait Ash Shu'aybah, Ash Shuwaykh, Az Zawr (Mina' Sa'ud), Mina' 'Abd Allah, Mina' al Ahmadi

Kyrgyzstan Balykchy (Ysyk-Kol or Rybach'ye)

Latvia Riga, Ventspils

Lebanon Beirut, Tripoli

Liberia Buchanan, Monrovia

Libya Marsa al Burayqah, Ra's Lanuf, Tripoli

Lithuania Butinge, Klaipeda

Luxembourg Mertert

Macau Macau

Madagascar Antsiranana (Diego Suarez), Mahajanga, Toamasina, Toliara (Tulear)

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

Malaysia Bintulu, Johor Bahru, George Town (Penang), Port Kelang (Port Klang), Tanjung Pelepas

Maldives Male

Mali Koulikoro

Malta Marsaxlokk (Malta Freeport), Valletta

Marshall Islands Enitwetak Island, Kwajalein, Majuro

Mauritania Nouadhibou, Nouakchott

Mauritius Port Louis

Mayotte Dzaoudzi

Mexico Altamira, Coatzacoalcos, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, Salina Cruz, Veracruz

Micronesia, Federated States of Colonia (Tomil Harbor), Lele Harbor, Pohnepi Harbor

Monaco Monaco

Montenegro Bar

Montserrat Little Bay, Plymouth

Morocco Casablanca, Jorf Lasfar, Mohammedia, Safi, Tangier

Mozambique Beira, Maputo, Nacala

Namibia Luderitz, Walvis Bay

Nauru Nauru

Navassa Island none; offshore anchorage only

Netherlands Amsterdam, IJmuiden, Moerdijk, Rotterdam, Terneuzen, Vlissingen

New Caledonia Noumea

New Zealand Auckland, Lyttelton, Manukau Harbor, Marsden Point, Tauranga, Wellington

Nicaragua Bluefields, Corinto

Nigeria Bonny Inshore Terminal, Calabar, Lagos

Niue Alofi

Norfolk Island Kingston

Northern Mariana Islands Saipan, Tinian, Rota

Norway Bergen, Haugesund, Maaloy, Mongstad, Narvik, Sture

Oman Mina' Qabus, Salalah, Suhar

Pacific Ocean Bangkok (Thailand), Hong Kong (China), 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

Panama Balboa, Colon, Cristobal

Papua New Guinea Kimbe, Lae, Madang, Rabaul, Wewak

Paracel Islands small Chinese port facilities on Woody Island and Duncan Island

Paraguay Asuncion, Villeta, San Antonio, Encarnacion

Peru Callao, Iquitos, Matarani, Paita, Pucallpa, Yurimaguas; note - Iquitos, Pucallpa, and Yurimaguas are on the upper reaches of the Amazon and its tributaries

Philippines Batangas, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Liman, Manila

Pitcairn Islands Adamstown (on Bounty Bay)

Poland Gdansk, Gdynia, Swinoujscie, Szczecin

Portugal Leixoes, Lisbon, Setubal, Sines

Puerto Rico Ensenada Honda, Mayaguez, Playa de Guayanilla, Playa de Ponce, San Juan

Qatar Doha, Mesaieed (Umaieed), Ra's Laffan

Romania Braila, Constanta, Galati (Galatz), Mancanului (Giurgiu), Midia, Tulcea

Russia Kaliningrad, Kavkaz, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Primorsk, Saint Petersburg, Vostochnyy

Rwanda Cyangugu, Gisenyi, Kibuye

Saint Barthelemy Gustavia

Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha Saint Helena: Jamestown Ascension Island: Georgetown Tristan da Cunha: Calshot Harbor (Edinburgh)

Saint Kitts and Nevis Basseterre, Charlestown

Saint Lucia Castries, Cul-de-Sac, Vieux-Fort

Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint-Pierre

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Kingstown

Samoa Apia

Sao Tome and Principe Sao Tome

Saudi Arabia Ad Dammam, Al Jubayl, Jiddah, Yanbu' al Sinaiyah

Senegal Dakar

Seychelles Victoria

Sierra Leone Freetown, Pepel, Sherbro Islands

Singapore Singapore

Sint Maarten Philipsburg

Slovakia Bratislava, Komarno

Slovenia Koper

Solomon Islands Honiara, Malloco Bay, Viru Harbor, Tulaghi

Somalia Berbera, Kismaayo

South Africa Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha Bay

South Georgia and 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 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

Spain Algeciras, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cartagena, Huelva, Tarragona, Valencia (Spain); Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canary Islands)

Spratly Islands none; offshore anchorage only

Sri Lanka Colombo

Sudan Port Sudan

Suriname Paramaribo, Wageningen

Svalbard Barentsburg, Longyearbyen, Ny-Alesund, Pyramiden

Sweden Brofjorden, Goteborg, Helsingborg, Karlshamn, Lulea, Malmo, Stockholm, Trelleborg, Visby

Switzerland Basel

Syria Baniyas, Latakia, Tartus

Taiwan Chilung (Keelung), Kaohsiung, Hualian, Taichung

Tanzania Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar

Thailand Bangkok, Laem Chabang, Map Ta Phut, Prachuap Port, Si Racha

Timor-Leste Dili

Togo Kpeme, Lome

Tokelau none; offshore anchorage only

Tonga Nuku'alofa, Neiafu, Pangai

Trinidad and Tobago Point Fortin, Point Lisas, Port-of-Spain, Scarborough

Tunisia Bizerte, Gabes, Rades, Sfax, Skhira

Turkey Aliaga, Diliskelesi, Eregli, Izmir, Kocaeli (Izmit), Mercin Limani, Yarimca

Turkmenistan Turkmenbasy

Turks and Caicos Islands Cockburn Harbour, Grand Turk, Providenciales

Tuvalu Funafuti

Uganda Entebbe, Jinja, Port Bell

Ukraine Feodosiya (Theodosia), Illichivsk, Mariupol', Mykolayiv, Odesa, Yuzhnyy

United Arab Emirates Al Fujayrah, Mina' Jabal 'Ali (Dubai), Khawr Fakkan (Khor Fakkan), Mubarraz Island, Mina' Rashid (Dubai), Mina' Saqr (Ra's al Khaymah),

United Kingdom Dover, Felixstowe, Immingham, Liverpool, London, Southampton, Teesport (England); Forth Ports, Hound Point (Scotland); Milford Haven (Wales)

United States cargo ports (tonnage): Baton Rouge, Corpus Christi, Houston, Long Beach, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Plaquemines, Tampa, Texas City container ports (TEUs): Los Angeles (7,849,985), Long Beach (6,350,125), New York/New Jersey (5,265,058), Savannah (2,616,126), Oakland (2,236,244), Hampton Roads (2,083,278) (2008) cruise departure ports (passengers): Miami (2,032,000), Port Everglades (1,277,000), Port Canaveral (1,189,000), Seattle (430,000), Long Beach (415,000) (2009)

United States Pacific Island Wildlife Refuges Baker, Howland, and Jarvis Islands, and Kingman Reef: none; offshore anchorage only Johnston Atoll: Johnston Island Midway Islands: Sand Island Palmyra Atoll: West Lagoon

Uruguay Montevideo

Uzbekistan Termiz (Amu Darya)

Vanuatu Forari Bay, Luganville (Santo, Espiritu Santo), Port-Vila

Venezuela La Guaira, Maracaibo, Puerto Cabello, Punta Cardon

Vietnam Cam Pha Port, Da Nang, Hai Phong, Ho Chi Minh City, Phu My, Quy Nhon

Virgin Islands Charlotte Amalie, Christiansted, Cruz Bay, Frederiksted, Limetree Bay

Wake Island none; two offshore anchorages for large ships

Wallis and Futuna Leava, Mata-Utu

Western Sahara Ad Dakhla, Laayoune (El Aaiun)

World top ten container ports as measured by Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) throughput: Singapore - 25,866,400; Shanghai - 25,002,000; Hong Kong - 20,983,000; Shenzhen (China) - 18,250,100; Pusan (South Korea) - 11,954,861; Guangzhou (China) - 11,190,000; Dubai (UAE) - 11,124,082; Ningbo (China) - 10,502,800; Qingdao (China) - 10,260,000; - Rotterdam - 9,743,290 (2009)

Yemen Aden, Al Hudaydah, Al Mukalla

Zambia Mpulungu

Zimbabwe Binga, Kariba

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Field Listing :: Railways

This entry states the total route length of the railway network and of its component parts by gauge: broad, standard, narrow, and dual. Other gauges are listed under note. Country Comparison to the World Country

Railways(km)

Albania total: 896 km standard gauge: 896 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)

Algeria total: 3,973 km standard gauge: 2,888 km 1.435-m gauge (283 km electrified) narrow gauge: 1,085 km 1.055-m gauge (2008)

Angola total: 2,764 km narrow gauge: 2,641 km 1.067-m gauge; 123 km 0.600-m gauge (2008)

Argentina total: 31,409 km broad gauge: 27,301 km 1.676-m gauge (94 km electrified) standard gauge: 2,780 km 1.435-m gauge (26 km electrified) narrow gauge: 1,328 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Armenia total: 845 km broad gauge: 845 km 1.520-m gauge (818 km electrified) note: some lines are out of service (2008)

Australia total: 37,855 km broad gauge: 142 km 1.600-m gauge standard gauge: 24,409 km 1.435-m gauge (1,094 km electrified) narrow gauge: 13,304 km 1.067-m gauge (1,193 km electrified) (2008)

Austria total: 6,399 km standard gauge: 5,927 km 1.435-m gauge (3,688 km electrified) narrow gauge: 384 km 1.000-m gauge (15 km electrified); 88 km 0.760-m gauge (10 km electrified) (2008)

Azerbaijan total: 2,918 km broad gauge: 2,918 km 1.520-m gauge (1,278 km electrified) (2009)

Bangladesh total: 2,768 km broad gauge: 946 km 1.676-m gauge narrow gauge: 1,822 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Belarus total: 5,537 km broad gauge: 5,512 km 1.520-m gauge (874 km electrified) standard gauge: 25 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)

Belgium total: 3,233 km standard gauge: 3,233 km 1.435-m gauge (2,950 km electrified) (2008)

Benin total: 578 km narrow gauge: 578 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Bolivia total: 3,504 km narrow gauge: 3,504 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Bosnia and Herzegovina total: 1,000 km standard gauge: 1,000 km 1.435-m gauge (590 km electrified) (2008)

Botswana total: 888 km narrow gauge: 888 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)

Brazil total: 28,857 km broad gauge: 5,709 km 1.600-m gauge (459 km electrified) standard gauge: 194 km 1.440-m gauge narrow gauge: 22,954 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Bulgaria total: 4,294 km standard gauge: 4,049 km 1.435-m gauge (2,880 km electrified) narrow gauge: 245 km 0.760-m gauge (2008)

Burkina Faso total: 622 km narrow gauge: 622 km 1.000-m gauge note: another 660 km of this railway extends into Cote d'Ivoire (2008)

Burma total: 3,955 km narrow gauge: 3,955 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Cambodia total: 690 km narrow gauge: 690 km 1.000-m gauge note: under restoration (2010)

Cameroon total: 987 km narrow gauge: 987 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Canada total: 46,688 km standard gauge: 46,688 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)

Chile total: 5,483 km broad gauge: 1,706 km 1.676-m gauge (850 km electrified) narrow gauge: 3,777 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

China total: 77,834 km standard gauge: 77,084 km 1.435-m gauge (24,433 km electrified) narrow gauge: 750 km 0.750-m gauge (2008)

Christmas Island total: 18 km standard gauge: 18 km 1.435-m (not in operation) (2010)

Colombia total: 3,802 km standard gauge: 150 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 3,652 km 0.914-m gauge (2008)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the total: 4,007 km narrow gauge: 3,882 km 1.067-m gauge (858 km electrified); 125 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Congo, Republic of the total: 795 km narrow gauge: 795 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)

Costa Rica total: 278 km narrow gauge: 278 km 1.067-m gauge note: none of the railway network is in use (2008)

Cote d'Ivoire total: 660 km narrow gauge: 660 km 1.000 meter gauge note: an additional 622 km of this railroad extends into Burkina Faso (2008)

Croatia total: 2,722 km standard gauge: 2,722 km 1.435-m gauge (985 km electrified) (2009)

Cuba total: 8,598 km standard gauge: 8,322 km 1.435-m gauge (176 km electrified) narrow gauge: 276 km 1.000-gauge note: 4,533 km of the track is used by sugar plantations; 4,257 km is standard gauge; 276 km is narrow gauge (2006)

Czech Republic total: 9,620 km standard gauge: 9,521 km 1.435-m gauge (3,013 km electrified) narrow gauge: 99 km 0.750-m gauge (2008)

Denmark total: 2,667 km standard gauge: 2,667 km 1.435-m gauge (640 km electrified) (2008)

Djibouti total: 100 km (Djibouti segment of the 781 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway) narrow gauge: 100 km 1.000-m gauge note: railway is under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia but is largely inoperable (2008)

Dominican Republic total: 1,784 km standard gauge: 375 km 1.435-m gauge narrow gauge: 1,409 km 1.076-m, 0.889-m, and 0.762-m gauges note: 1,226 km operated by sugar companies in 1.076 m, 0.889 m, and 0.762-m gauges (2008)

Ecuador total: 965 km narrow gauge: 965 km 1.067-m gauge (2008)

Egypt total: 5,500 km standard gauge: 5,500 km 1.435-m gauge (62 km electrified) (2009)

El Salvador total: 283 km narrow gauge: 283 km 0.914-m gauge note: railways have been inoperable since 2005 because of disuse and high costs that led to a lack of maintenance (2008)

Eritrea total: 306 km narrow gauge: 306 km 0.950-m gauge (2008)

Estonia total: 1,196 km broad gauge: 1,196 km 1.520 m/1.524-m gauge (131 km electrified) (2008)

Ethiopia total: 681 km (Ethiopian segment of the 781 km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railroad) narrow gauge: 681 km 1.000-m gauge note: railway is under joint control of Djibouti and Ethiopia but is largely inoperable (2008)

European Union total: 229,450 km (2008)

Fiji total: 597 km narrow gauge: 597 km 0.600-m gauge note: belongs to the government-owned Fiji Sugar Corporation; used to haul sugarcane during the harvest season, which runs from May to December (2008)

Finland total: 5,794 km broad gauge: 5,794 km 1.524-m gauge (3,047 km electrified) (2008)

France total: 29,213 km standard gauge: 29,046 km 1.435-m gauge (15,164 km electrified) narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (2008)

Gabon total: 814 km standard gauge: 814 km 1.435-m gauge (2008)