| Field Listing :: Roadways |
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| Afghanistan
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total: 42,150 km
paved: 12,350 km
unpaved: 29,800 km (2006)
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| Albania
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total: 18,000 km
paved: 7,020 km
unpaved: 10,980 km (2002)
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| Algeria
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total: 113,655 km
paved: 87,605 km (includes 645 km of expressways)
unpaved: 26,050 km (2010)
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| Angola
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total: 51,429 km
paved: 5,349 km
unpaved: 46,080 km (2001)
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| Anguilla
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total: 175 km
paved: 82 km
unpaved: 93 km (2004)
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| Argentina
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total: 231,374 km
paved: 69,412 km (includes 734 km of expressways)
unpaved: 161,962 km (2004)
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| Australia
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total: 823,217 km
paved: 356,343 km
unpaved: 466,874 km (2011)
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| Austria
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total: 124,508 km
paved: 124,508 km (includes 1,719 km of expressways) (2012)
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| Azerbaijan
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total: 52,942 km
paved: 26,789 km
unpaved: 26,153 km (2006)
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| Bahamas, The
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total: 2,717 km
paved: 1,560 km
unpaved: 1,157 km (2002)
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| Bahrain
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total: 4,122 km
paved: 3,392 km
unpaved: 730 km (2010)
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| Bangladesh
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total: 21,269 km
paved: 1,063 km
unpaved: 20,206 km (2010)
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| Barbados
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total: 1,600 km
paved: 1,600 km (2004)
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| Belarus
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total: 86,392 km
paved: 74,651 km
unpaved: 11,741 km (2010)
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| Belgium
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total: 154,012 km
paved: 120,514 km (includes 1,756 km of expressways)
unpaved: 33,498 km (2010)
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| Belize
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total: 3,007 km
paved: 575 km
unpaved: 2,432 km (2006)
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| Benin
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total: 16,000 km
paved: 1,400 km
unpaved: 14,600 km (2006)
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| Bermuda
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total: 447 km
paved: 447 km
note: 225 km public roads; 222 km private roads (2010)
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| Bhutan
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total: 8,050 km
paved: 4,991 km (includes 622 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,059 km (2003)
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| Bolivia
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total: 80,488 km
paved: 11,993 km
unpaved: 68,495 km (2010)
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| Bosnia and Herzegovina
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total: 22,926 km
paved: 19,426 km (4,652 km of interurban roads)
unpaved: 3,500 km (2010)
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| Botswana
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total: 17,916 km
note: includes 8,916 km of Public Highway Network roads (6,116 km paved and 2,800 km unpaved) and other 9,000 km of District Council roads (2011)
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| Brazil
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total: 1,580,964 km
paved: 212,798 km
unpaved: 1,368,166 km
note: does not include urban roads (2010)
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| Brunei
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total: 3,029 km
paved: 2,425 km
unpaved: 604 km (2010)
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| Bulgaria
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total: 19,512 km
paved: 19,235 km (includes 458 km of expressways)
unpaved: 277 km
note: does not include Category IV local roads (2011)
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| Burkina Faso
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total: 15,272 km
note: does not include urban roads (2010)
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| Burma
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total: 34,377 km (includes 358 km of expressways) (2010)
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| Burundi
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total: 12,322 km
paved: 1,286 km
unpaved: 11,036 km (2004)
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| Cambodia
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total: 39,618 km
paved: 2,492 km
unpaved: 37,126 km (2009)
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| Cameroon
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total: 50,000 km
paved: 5,000 km
unpaved: 45,000 km
note: there are 28,857 km of national roads (2008)
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| Canada
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total: 1,042,300 km
paved: 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 626,700 km (2008)
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| Cape Verde
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total: 1,350 km
paved: 932 km
unpaved: 418 km (2000)
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| Chad
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total: 40,000 km
note: consists of 25,000 km of national and regional roads and 15,000 km of local roads; 206 km of urban roads are paved (2011)
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| Chile
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total: 77,764 km
paved: 18,119 km (includes 2,387 km of expressways)
unpaved: 59,645 km (2010)
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| China
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total: 4,106,387 km
paved: 3,453,890 km (includes 84,946 km of expressways)
unpaved: 652,497 km (2011)
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| Comoros
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total: 880 km
paved: 673 km
unpaved: 207 km (2002)
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| Cook Islands
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total: 320 km
paved: 33 km
unpaved: 287 km (2003)
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| Costa Rica
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total: 39,018 km
paved: 10,133 km
unpaved: 28,885 km (2010)
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| Cote d'Ivoire
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total: 81,996 km
paved: 6,502 km
unpaved: 75,494 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 (2007)
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| Croatia
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total: 29,410 km (includes 1,254 km of expressways) (2011)
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| Cuba
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total: 60,858 km
paved: 29,820 km (includes 639 km of expressways)
unpaved: 31,038 km (2001)
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| Cyprus
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total: 20,006 km
government control: 13,006 km (includes 2,277 km of expressways)
paved: 8,564 km
unpaved: 4,442 km
Turkish Cypriot control: 7,000 km (2011)
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| Czech Republic
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total: 130,671 km (includes urban roads)
paved: 130,671 km (includes 730 km of expressways) (2010)
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| Denmark
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total: 73,929 km
paved: 73,929 km (includes 1,143 km of expressways) (2012)
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| Djibouti
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total: 3,065 km
paved: 1,226 km
unpaved: 1,839 km (2000)
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| Dominica
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total: 1,512 km
paved: 762 km
unpaved: 750 km (2010)
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| Ecuador
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total: 43,670 km
paved: 6,472 km
unpaved: 37,198 km (2007)
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| Egypt
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total: 137,430 km
paved: 126,742 km (includes 838 km of expressways)
unpaved: 10,688 km (2010)
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| El Salvador
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total: 6,918 km
paved: 3,247 km (includes 341 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,671 km (2010)
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| Eritrea
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total: 4,010 km
paved: 874 km
unpaved: 3,136 km (2000)
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| Estonia
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total: 58,412 km (includes urban roads)
paved: 10,427 km (includes 115 km of expressways)
unpaved: 47,985 km (2011)
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| Ethiopia
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total: 44,359 km
paved: 6,064 km
unpaved: 38,295 km (2007)
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| Fiji
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total: 3,440 km
paved: 1,692 km
unpaved: 1,748 km (2000)
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| Finland
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total: 78,000 km
paved: 50,000 km (includes 700 km of expressways)
unpaved: 28,000 km
note: there 78,000 km of highways, 350,000 km of private and forest roads, and 26,000 km of urban roads giving Finland a total road network of 450,000 km (2012)
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| France
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total: 1,028,446 km (metropolitan France; includes 11,416 km of expressways)
note: there are another 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2010)
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| Gabon
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total: 9,170 km
paved: 1,097 km
unpaved: 8,073 km (2007)
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| Gambia, The
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total: 3,742 km
paved: 723 km
unpaved: 3,019 km (2004)
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| Georgia
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total: 19,109 km
paved: 19,109 km (includes 69 km of expressways) (2010)
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| Germany
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total: 645,000 km
paved: 645,000 km (includes 12,800 km of expressways)
note: includes local roads (2010)
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| Ghana
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total: 109,515 km
paved: 13,787 km
unpaved: 95,728 km (2009)
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| Greece
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total: 116,960 km
paved: 41,357 km (includes 1,091 km of expressways)
unpaved: 75,603 km (2010)
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| Greenland
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note: although there are short roads in towns, there are no roads between towns; inter-urban transport takes place either by sea or air (2012)
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| Grenada
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total: 1,127 km
paved: 687 km
unpaved: 440 km (2001)
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| Guam
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total: 1,045 km (2008)
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| Guatemala
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total: 11,501 km
paved: 6,797 km (includes 127 km of expressways)
unpaved: 4,704 km (2010)
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| Guinea
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total: 44,348 km
paved: 4,342 km
unpaved: 40,006 km (2003)
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| Guinea-Bissau
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total: 3,455 km
paved: 965 km
unpaved: 2,490 km (2002)
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| Guyana
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total: 7,970 km
paved: 590 km
unpaved: 7,380 km (2000)
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| Haiti
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total: 4,266 km
paved: 768 km
unpaved: 3,498 km (2009)
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| Honduras
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total: 14,742 km
paved: 3,367 km
unpaved: 11,375 km (1,543 km summer only)
note: there are another 8,951 km of non-offical roads used by the coffee industry (2012)
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| Hong Kong
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total: 2,090 km
paved: 2,090 km (2012)
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| Hungary
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total: 199,567 km
paved: 76,075 km (includes 1,477 km of expressways)
unpaved: 123,492 km (2010)
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| Iceland
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total: 12,890 km
paved/oiled gravel: 4,782 km (does not include urban roads)
unpaved: 8,108 km (2012)
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| India
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total: 4,689,842 km
note: includes 79,116 km of national highways and expressways, 155,716 km of state highways, and 4,455,010 km of other roads (2013)
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| Indonesia
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total: 496,607 km
paved: 283,102 km
unpaved: 213,505 km (2011)
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| Iran
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total: 198,866 km
paved: 160,366 km (includes 1,948 km of expressways)
unpaved: 38,500 km (2010)
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| Iraq
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total: 59,623 km
paved: 59,623 km (includes Kurdistan Region) (2012)
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| Ireland
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total: 96,036 km
paved: 96,036 km (includes 1,224 km of expressways) (2010)
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| Israel
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total: 18,566 km
paved: 18,566 km (includes 449 km of expressways) (2011)
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| Italy
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total: 487,700 km
paved: 487,700 km (includes 6,700 km of expressways) (2007)
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| Jamaica
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total: 22,121 km (includes 44 km of expressways) (2005)
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| Japan
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total: 1,210,251 km
paved: 973,234 km (includes 7,803 km of expressways)
unpaved: 237,017 km (2010)
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| Jordan
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total: 7,203 km
paved: 7,203 km (2011)
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| Kazakhstan
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total: 97,418 km
paved: 87,140 km
unpaved: 10,278 km (2012)
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| Kenya
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total: 160,886 km
paved: 11,197 km
unpaved: 149,689 km (2008)
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| Korea, North
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total: 25,554 km
paved: 724 km
unpaved: 24,830 km (2006)
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| Korea, South
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total: 103,029 km
paved: 80,642 km (includes 3,367 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,387 km (2008)
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| Kosovo
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total: 1,964 km
paved: 1,706 km
unpaved: 258 km (2009)
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| Kuwait
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total: 5,749 km
paved: 4,887 km
unpaved: 862 km (2004)
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| Laos
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total: 39,568 km
paved: 530 km
unpaved: 39,038 km (2007)
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| Latvia
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total: 73,074 km
paved: 14,459 km
unpaved: 58,615 km (2010)
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| Lebanon
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total: 6,970 km (includes 170 km of expressways) (2005)
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| Lesotho
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total: 7,091 km
paved: 1,404 km
unpaved: 5,687 km (2003)
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| Liberia
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total: 10,600 km
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km (2000)
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| Libya
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total: 100,024 km
paved: 57,214 km
unpaved: 42,810 km (2003)
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| Lithuania
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total: 82,131 km
paved: 72,048 km (includes 309 km of expressways)
unpaved: 10,083 km (2010)
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| Luxembourg
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total: 5,227 km
paved: 5,227 km (includes 147 km of expressways) (2008)
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| Macau
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total: 413 km
paved: 413 km (2009)
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| Macedonia
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total: 13,736 km (includes 216 km of expressways) (2010)
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| Madagascar
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total: 65,663 km
paved: 7,617 km
unpaved: 58,046 km (2003)
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| Malawi
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total: 15,451 km
paved: 6,956 km
unpaved: 8,495 km (2003)
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| Malaysia
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total: 98,721 km
paved: 80,280 km (includes 1,821 km of expressways)
unpaved: 18,441 km (2004)
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| Maldives
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total: 88 km
paved roads: 88 km - 60 km in Male; 14 km on Addu Atolis; 14 km on Laamu
note: island roads are mainly compacted coral (2013)
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| Mali
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total: 18,912 km
paved: 3,597 km
unpaved: 15,315 km (2004)
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| Malta
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total: 3,096 km
paved: 2,710 km
unpaved: 386 km (2005)
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| Mauritania
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total: 11,066 km
paved: 2,966 km
unpaved: 8,100 km (2006)
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| Mauritius
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total: 2,066 km
paved: 2,066 km (includes 75 km of expressways) (2009)
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| Mexico
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total: 366,095 km
paved: 132,289 km (includes 6,279 km of expressways)
unpaved: 233,806 km (2008)
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| Moldova
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total: 9,343 km
paved: 8,810 km
unpaved: 533 km (2008)
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| Monaco
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total: 77 km
paved: 77 km (2007)
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| Mongolia
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total: 49,249 km
paved: 3,015 km
unpaved: 46,234 km (2010)
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| Montenegro
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total: 7,624 km
paved: 5,097 km
unpaved: 2,527 km (2008)
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| Montserrat
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note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the 227 km road system; a new road infrastructure has been built on the north end of the island (2008)
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| Morocco
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total: 58,256 km
paved: 39,480 km (includes 866 km of expressways)
unpaved: 18,776 km (2006)
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| Mozambique
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total: 30,331 km
paved: 6,303 km
unpaved: 24,028 km (2000)
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| Namibia
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total: 64,189 km
paved: 5,477 km
unpaved: 58,712 km (2010)
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| Nauru
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total: 24 km
paved: 24 km (2002)
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| Nepal
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total: 17,282 km
paved: 10,142 km
unpaved: 7,140 km (2007)
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| Netherlands
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total: 136,827 km (includes 2,631 km of expressways) (2008)
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| New Zealand
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total: 93,911 km
paved: 61,879 km (includes 172 km of expressways)
unpaved: 32,032 km (2009)
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| Nicaragua
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total: 19,137 km
paved: 2,033 km
unpaved: 17,104 km (2009)
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| Niger
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total: 18,949 km
paved: 3,912 km
unpaved: 15,037 km (2008)
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| Nigeria
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total: 193,200 km
paved: 28,980 km
unpaved: 164,220 km (2004)
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| Niue
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total: 120 km
paved: 120 km (2008)
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| Norway
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total: 93,509 km (includes 253 km of expressways) (2007)
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| Oman
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total: 45,985 km
paved: 29,685 km (includes 1,384 km of expressways)
unpaved: 16,300 km (2011)
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| Pakistan
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total: 260,760 km
paved: 180,910 km (includes 711 km of expressways)
unpaved: 79,850 km (2007)
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| Panama
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total: 11,978 km
paved: 4,300 km
unpaved: 7,678 km (2002)
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| Paraguay
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total: 29,500 km
paved: 14,986 km
unpaved: 14,514 km (2000)
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| Peru
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total: 140,672 km (of which 18,698 km are paved)
note: includes 24,593 km of national roads (of which 14,748 km are paved), 24,235 km of departmental roads (2,340 km paved), and 91,844 km of local roads (1,611 km paved) (2012)
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| Philippines
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total: 213,151 km
paved: 54,481 km
unpaved: 158,670 km (2009)
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| Poland
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total: 423,997 km
paved: 295,356 km (includes 765 km of expressways)
unpaved: 128,641 km (2008)
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| Portugal
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total: 82,900 km
paved: 71,294 km (includes 2,613 km of expressways)
unpaved: 11,606 km (2008)
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| Puerto Rico
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total: 26,670 km
paved: 25,337 km (includes 427 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,333 km (2008)
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| Qatar
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total: 7,790 km (2006)
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| Romania
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total: 82,386 km (does not include urban roads)
paved: 71,154 km (includes 371 km of expressways)
unpaved: 11,232 km (2009)
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| Russia
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total: 982,000 km
paved: 776,000 km (includes 30,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 206,000 km
note: includes public, local, and departmental roads (2009)
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| Rwanda
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total: 14,008 km
paved: 2,662 km
unpaved: 11,346 km (2004)
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| Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
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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, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2002)
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| Samoa
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total: 2,337 km
paved: 332 km
unpaved: 2,005 km (2001)
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| Saudi Arabia
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total: 221,372 km
paved: 47,529 km (includes 3,891 km of expressways)
unpaved: 173,843 km (2006)
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| Senegal
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total: 14,008 km
paved: 4,099 km (includes 7 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,909 km (2003)
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| Serbia
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total: 41,913 km
paved: 26,007 km
unpaved: 15,906 km (2007)
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| Seychelles
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total: 508 km
paved: 490 km
unpaved: 18 km (2003)
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| Sierra Leone
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total: 11,300 km
paved: 904 km
unpaved: 10,396 km (2002)
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| Singapore
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total: 3,356 km
paved: 3,356 km (includes 161 km of expressways) (2009)
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| Slovakia
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total: 43,761 km
paved: 38,085 km (includes 384 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,676 km (2008)
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| Slovenia
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total: 38,925 km
paved: 38,925 km (includes 658 km of expressways) (2008)
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| Solomon Islands
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total: 1,360 km
paved: 33 km
unpaved: 1,327 km
note: includes 800 km of private plantation roads (2002)
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| Somalia
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total: 22,100 km
paved: 2,608 km
unpaved: 19,492 km (2000)
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| South Africa
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total: 362,099 km
paved: 73,506 km (includes 239 km of expressways)
unpaved: 288,593 km (2002)
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| South Sudan
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7,000 km; note - little of the road network is paved and much of it is in disrepair (2010)
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| Spain
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total: 681,298 km
paved: 681,298 km (includes 15,152 km of expressways) (2008)
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| Sudan
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total: 11,900 km
paved: 4,320 km
unpaved: 7,580 km (2000)
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| Suriname
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total: 4,304 km
paved: 1,130 km
unpaved: 3,174 km (2003)
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| Swaziland
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total: 3,594 km
paved: 1,078 km
unpaved: 2,516 km (2002)
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| Sweden
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total: 572,900 km (includes 1,855 km of expressways)
note: includes 98,400 km of state roads, 433,500 km of private roads, and 41,000 km of municipal roads; 215,700 km of these are open to public traffic (2009)
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| Switzerland
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total: 71,454 km
paved: 71,454 km (includes 1,790 of expressways) (2010)
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| Syria
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total: 68,157 km
paved: 61,514 km (includes 1,103 km of expressways)
unpaved: 6,643 km (2006)
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| Taiwan
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total: 41,475 km
paved: 41,033 km (includes 720 km of expressways)
unpaved: 442 km (2009)
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| Tanzania
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total: 91,049 km
paved: 6,578 km
unpaved: 84,471 km (2007)
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| Thailand
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total: 180,053 km (includes 450 km of expressways) (2006)
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| Timor-Leste
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total: 6,040 km
paved: 2,600 km
unpaved: 3,440 km (2005)
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| Togo
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total: 7,520 km
paved: 2,376 km
unpaved: 5,144 km (2000)
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| Tonga
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total: 680 km
paved: 184 km
unpaved: 496 km (2000)
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| Tunisia
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total: 19,232 km
paved: 12,655 km (includes 262 km of expressways)
unpaved: 6,577 km (2006)
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| Turkey
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total: 352,046 km
paved: 313,151 km (includes 2,010 km of expressways)
unpaved: 38,895 km (2008)
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| Turkmenistan
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total: 58,592 km
paved: 47,577 km
unpaved: 11,015 km (2002)
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| Tuvalu
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total: 8 km
paved: 8 km (2002)
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| Uganda
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total: 70,746 km
paved: 16,272 km
unpaved: 54,474 km (2003)
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| Ukraine
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total: 169,496 km
paved: 165,844 km (includes 15 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,652 km (2009)
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| United Kingdom
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total: 394,428 km
paved: 394,428 km (includes 3,519 km of expressways) (2009)
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| United States
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total: 6,506,204 km
paved: 4,374,784 km (includes 75,238 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,131,420 km (2008)
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| Uruguay
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total: 77,732 km
paved: 7,743 km
unpaved: 69,989 km (2010)
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| Uzbekistan
|
total: 86,496 km
paved: 75,511 km
unpaved: 10,985 km (2000)
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| Vanuatu
|
total: 1,070 km
paved: 256 km
unpaved: 814 km (1999)
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| Venezuela
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total: 96,155 km
paved: 32,308 km
unpaved: 63,847 km (2002)
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| Vietnam
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total: 180,549 km
paved: 133,899 km
unpaved: 46,650 km (2008)
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| West Bank
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total: 5,147 km
paved: 5,147 km
note: includes Gaza Strip (2006)
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| World
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total: 102,260,304 km (2008)
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| Yemen
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total: 71,300 km
paved: 6,200 km
unpaved: 65,100 km (2005)
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| Zambia
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total: 91,440 km
paved: 20,117 km
unpaved: 71,323 km (2001)
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| Zimbabwe
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total: 97,267 km
paved: 18,481 km
unpaved: 78,786 km (2002)
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Central Intelligence Agency
