Puerto Rico:commonwealth
Qatar:traditional monarchy
Reunion:NA
Romania:republic
Russia:federation
Rwanda:republic; presidential, multiparty system
Saint Helena:NA
Saint Kitts and Nevis:constitutional monarchy withWestminster-style parliament
Saint Lucia:Westminster-style parliamentary democracy
Saint Pierre and Miquelon:NA
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: parliamentary democracy; independent sovereign state within the Commonwealth
Samoa:constitutional monarchy under native chief
San Marino:independent republic
Sao Tome and Principe:republic
Saudi Arabia:monarchy
Senegal:republic under multiparty democratic rule
Seychelles:republic
Sierra Leone:constitutional democracy
Singapore:parliamentary republic
Slovakia:parliamentary democracy
Slovenia:parliamentary democratic republic
Solomon Islands:parliamentary democracy
Somalia:parliamentary
South Africa:republic
Spain:parliamentary monarchy
Sri Lanka:republic
Sudan:transitional - ruling military junta took power in 1989;government is dominated by members of Sudan's National Islamic Front(NIF), a fundamentalist political organization, which uses theNational Congress Party (NCP) as its legal front
Suriname:constitutional democracy
Svalbard:NA
Swaziland:monarchy; independent member of Commonwealth
Sweden:constitutional monarchy
Switzerland:federal republic
Syria:republic under military regime since March 1963
Tajikistan:republic
Tanzania:republic
Thailand:constitutional monarchy
Togo:republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule
Tokelau:NA
Tonga:hereditary constitutional monarchy
Trinidad and Tobago:parliamentary democracy
Tunisia:republic
Turkey:republican parliamentary democracy
Turkmenistan:republic
Turks and Caicos Islands:NA
Tuvalu:constitutional monarchy with a parliamentary democracy;began debating republic status in 1992
Uganda:republic
Ukraine:republic
United Arab Emirates:federation with specified powers delegated tothe UAE federal government and other powers reserved to memberemirates
United Kingdom:constitutional monarchy
United States:federal republic; strong democratic tradition
Uruguay:constitutional republic
Uzbekistan:republic; effectively authoritarian presidential rule,with little power outside the executive branch
Vanuatu:republic
Venezuela:federal republic
Vietnam:Communist state
Virgin Islands:NA
Wallis and Futuna:NA
Western Sahara:legal status of territory and question ofsovereignty unresolved; territory contested by Morocco and PolisarioFront (Popular Front for the Liberation of the Saguia el Hamra andRio de Oro), which in February 1976 formally proclaimed agovernment-in-exile of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR);territory partitioned between Morocco and Mauritania in April 1976,with Morocco acquiring northern two-thirds; Mauritania, underpressure from Polisario guerrillas, abandoned all claims to itsportion in August 1979; Morocco moved to occupy that sector shortlythereafter and has since asserted administrative control; thePolisario's government-in-exile was seated as an OAU member in 1984;guerrilla activities continued sporadically, until a UN-monitoredcease-fire was implemented 6 September 1991
Yemen:republic
Yugoslavia:republic
Zambia:republic
Zimbabwe:parliamentary democracy
Taiwan:multiparty democratic regime headed by popularly electedpresident
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@Heliports
Afghanistan:3 (2000 est.)
Albania:1 (2000 est.)
Algeria:1 (2000 est.)
Antarctica:27 stations have helicopter landing facilities(helipads) (2001 est.)
Austria:1 (2000 est.)
Bahamas, The:1 (2000 est.)
Bahrain:1 (2000 est.)
Belgium:1 (2000 est.)
Bosnia and Herzegovina:4 (2000 est.)
Brunei:3 (2000 est.)
Bulgaria:1 (2000 est.)
Burma:1 (2000 est.)
Cambodia:3 (2000 est.)
Canada:18 (2000 est.)
Croatia:1 (2000 est.)
Cyprus:7 (2000 est.)
Czech Republic:1 (2000 est.)
Ecuador:1 (2000 est.)
Egypt:2 (2000 est.)
El Salvador:1 (2000 est.)
France:3 (2000 est.)
Germany:59 (2000 est.)
Greece:2 (2000 est.)
Holy See (Vatican City):1 (2000 est.)
Hong Kong:2 (2000 est.)
Hungary:5 (2000 est.)
India:16 (2000 est.)
Indonesia:4 (2000 est.)
Iran:11 (2000 est.)
Iraq:4 (2000 est.)
Israel:2 (2000 est.)
Italy:4 (2000 est.)
Japan:16 (2000 est.)
Jordan:1 (2000 est.)
Korea, South:203 (2000 est.)
Kuwait:3 (2000 est.)
Luxembourg:1 (2000 est.)
Malaysia:1 (2000 est.)
Mexico:2 (2000 est.)
Monaco:1 (shuttle service between the international airport atNice, France, and Monaco's heliport at Fontvieille)
Morocco:1 (2000 est.)
Netherlands:1 (2000 est.)
New Caledonia:6 (2000 est.)
Nigeria:1 (2000 est.)
Northern Mariana Islands:1 (2000 est.)
Norway:1 (2000 est.)
Oman:1 (2000 est.)
Pakistan:8 (2000 est.)
Papua New Guinea:2 (2000 est.)
Philippines:1 (2000 est.)
Poland:3 (2000 est.)
Qatar:1 (2000 est.)
Romania:1 (2000 est.)
Saudi Arabia:5 (2000 est.)
Sierra Leone:1 (2000 est.)
Singapore:1 (2000 est.)
Spain:2 (2000 est.)
Sudan:1 (2000 est.)
Sweden:1 (2000 est.)
Syria:2 (2000 est.)
Thailand:2 (2000 est.)
Turkey:2 (2000 est.)
Uganda:1 (2000 est.)
United Arab Emirates:2 (2000 est.)
United Kingdom:11 (2000 est.)
United States:131 (2000 est.)
Venezuela:1 (2000 est.)
Western Sahara:1 (2000 est.)
Yugoslavia:2 (2000 est.)
Taiwan:3 (2000 est.)
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@Highways
Afghanistan: total: 21,000 km
paved: 2,793 km
unpaved: 18,207 km (1998 est.)
Albania: total: 18,000 km
paved: 5,400 km
unpaved: 12,600 km (1998 est.)
Algeria: total: 104,000 km
paved: 71,656 km (including 640 km of expressways)
unpaved: 32,344 km (1996 est.)
American Samoa: total: 350 km
paved: 150 km
unpaved: 200 km
Andorra: total: 269 km
paved: 198 km
unpaved: 71 km (1994 est.)
Angola: total: 76,626 km
paved: 19,156 km
unpaved: 57,470 km (1997)
Anguilla: total: 279 km
paved: 253 km
unpaved: 26 km (1998 est.)
Antigua and Barbuda: total: 1,165 km
paved: 384 km
unpaved: 781 km (1999 est.)
Argentina: total: 215,434 km
paved: 63,553 km (including 734 km of expressways)
unpaved: 151,881 km (1998 est.)
Armenia: total: 8,431 km ()
paved: NA
unpaved: NA (1997)
Aruba: total: 800 km
paved: 513 km
unpaved: 287 km
note: most coastal roads are paved, while unpaved roads serve large tracts of the interior (1995)
Australia:total: 913,000 km
paved: 353,331 km (including 1,363 km of expressways)
unpaved: 559,669 km (1996)
Austria: total: 133,361 km
paved: 133,361 km (including 1,613 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998)
Azerbaijan: total: 24,981 km
paved: 23,057 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather)
unpaved: 1,924 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1998)
Bahamas, The:total: 2,693 km
paved: 1,546 km
unpaved: 1,147 km (1997)
Bahrain: total: 3,164 km
paved: 2,433 km
unpaved: 731 km
note: there is a paved causeway connecting Bahrain to Saudi Arabia (1997)
Bangladesh:total: 201,182 km
paved: 19,112 km
unpaved: 182,070 km (1997)
Barbados: total: 1,600 km
paved: 1,578 km
unpaved: 22 km (1998)
Belarus: total: 63,355 km
paved: 60,567 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather)
unpaved: 2,788 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1998)
Belgium:total: 145,774 km
paved: 116,182 km (including 1,674 km of expressways)
unpaved: 29,592 km (1999)
Belize: total: 2,872 km
paved: 488 km
unpaved: 2,384 km (1998 est.)
Benin: total: 6,787 km
paved: 1,357 km (including 10 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,430 km (1997 est.)
Bermuda: total: 225 km
paved: 225 km
unpaved: 0 km
note: in addition, there are 232 km of paved and unpaved roads that are privately owned (1997)
Bhutan:total: 3,285 km
paved: 1,994 km
unpaved: 1,291 km (1996)
Bolivia: total: 49,400 km
paved: 2,500 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 46,900 km (1996)
Bosnia and Herzegovina: total: 21,846 km
paved: 14,020 km
unpaved: 7,826 km
note: road system is in need of maintenance and repair (2001)
Botswana: total: 18,482 km
paved: 4,343 km
unpaved: 14,139 km (1996)
Brazil: total: 1.98 million km
paved: 184,140 km
unpaved: 1,795,860 km (1996)
British Indian Ocean Territory:total: NA km
paved: short stretch of paved road of NA km between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
unpaved: NA km
British Virgin Islands: total: 132 km
paved: 132 km
unpaved: 0 km (1997)
Brunei: total: 1,712 km
paved: 1,284 km
unpaved: 428 km (1996)
Bulgaria: total: 36,724 km
paved: 33,786 km (including 314 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,938 km (1999)
Burkina Faso: total: 12,506 km
paved: 2,001 km
unpaved: 10,505 km (1996)
Burma: total: 28,200 km
paved: 3,440 km
unpaved: 24,760 km (1996)
Burundi: total: 14,480 km
paved: 1,028 km
unpaved: 13,452 km (1996)
Cambodia: total: 35,769 km
paved: 4,165 km
unpaved: 31,604 km (1997)
Cameroon: total: 34,300 km
paved: 4,288 km
unpaved: 30,012 km (1995)
Canada: total: 901,902 km
paved: 318,371 km (including 16,571 km of expressways)
unpaved: 583,531 km (1999)
Cape Verde: total: 1,100 km
paved: 858 km
unpaved: 242 km (1996)
Cayman Islands: total: 406 km
paved: 304 km
unpaved: 102 km
Central African Republic: total: 23,810 km
paved: 429 km
unpaved: 23,381 km (2000)
Chad: total: 33,400 km
paved: 267 km
unpaved: 33,133 km (1996)
Chile: total: 79,800 km
paved: 11,012 km
unpaved: 68,788 km (1996)
China: total: 1.4 million km
paved: 271,300 km (with at least 16,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,128,700 km (1999)
Christmas Island: total: 140 km (not including 100 km that is maintained by private industry)
paved: 30 km
unpaved: 110 km (1999)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands: total: 15 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km (2001)
Colombia: total: 110,000 km
paved: 26,000 km
unpaved: 84,000 km (2000)
Comoros: total: 880 km
paved: 673 km
unpaved: 207 km (1996)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the: total: 157,000 km (including 30 km of expressways)(1996)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Congo, Republic of the: total: 12,800 km
paved: 1,242 km
unpaved: 11,558 km (1996)
Cook Islands: total: 320 km (1992)
paved: NA
unpaved: NA
Costa Rica: total: 37,273 km
paved: 7,827 km
unpaved: 29,446 km (1998 est.)
Cote d'Ivoire: total: 50,400 km
paved: 4,889 km
unpaved: 45,511 km (1996)
Croatia: total: 27,840 km
paved: 23,497 km (including 330 km of expressways)
unpaved: 4,343 km (1998)
Cuba: total: 60,858 km
paved: 29,820 km (including 638 km of expressway)
unpaved: 31,038 km (1997)
Cyprus:total: Greek Cypriot area: 10,663 km (1998 est.); TurkishCypriot area: 2,350 km (1996 est.)
paved: Greek Cypriot area: 6,249 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriotarea: 1,370 km (1996 est.)
unpaved: Greek Cypriot area: 4,414 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriotarea: 980 km (1996 est.)
Czech Republic:total: 55,432 km
paved: 55,432 km (including 499 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (2000)
Denmark: total: 71,474 km
paved: 71,474 km (including 880 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1999)
Djibouti: total: 2,890 km
paved: 364 km
unpaved: 2,526 km (1996)
Dominica: total: 750 km
paved: 375 km
unpaved: 375 km (2001)
Dominican Republic: total: 12,600 km
paved: 6,224 km
unpaved: 6,376 km (1996)
Ecuador: total: 43,197 km
paved: 8,165 km
unpaved: 35,032 km (1999 est.)
Egypt: total: 64,000 km
paved: 50,000 km
unpaved: 14,000 km (1996)
El Salvador: total: 10,029 km
paved: 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
unpaved: 8,043 km (1997)
Equatorial Guinea: total: 2,880 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 2,880 km (1996)
Eritrea: total: 3,850 km
paved: 810 km
unpaved: 3,040 km (2000)
Estonia: total: 30,300 km
paved: 29,200 km (including 75 km of expressways); note - these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather
unpaved: 1,100 km (2000)
Ethiopia: total: 24,145 km
paved: 3,290 km
unpaved: 20,855 km (1998)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas): total: 440 km
paved: 50 km
unpaved: 390 km
Faroe Islands: total: 463 km
paved: 454 km
unpaved: 9 km (1999)
Fiji: total: 3,440 km
paved: 1,692 km
unpaved: 1,748 km (1996)
Finland: total: 77,796 km
paved: 49,789 km (including 444 km of expressways)
unpaved: 28,042 km (1999)
France: total: 892,900 km
paved: 892,900 km (including 9,900 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1999)
French Guiana: total: 1,817 km
paved: 817 km
unpaved: 1,000 km (1998)
French Polynesia: total: 792 km
paved: 264 km
unpaved: 528 km (2000)
Gabon: total: 7,670 km
paved: 629 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 7,041 km (1996)
Gambia, The: total: 2,700 km
paved: 956 km
unpaved: 1,744 km (1996)
Gaza Strip: total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
note: small, poorly developed road network
Georgia: total: 33,900 km
paved: 29,500 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather)
unpaved: 4,400 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Germany:total: 656,140 km
paved: 650,891 km (including 11,400 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,249 km (all-weather) (1998 est.)
Ghana: total: 39,409 km
paved: 11,653 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 27,756 km (1997)
Gibraltar: total: 46.25 km
paved: 46.25 km
unpaved: 0 km (2001)
Greece: total: 117,000 km
paved: 107,406 km (including 470 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,594 km (1996)
Greenland: total: 150 km
paved: 60 km
unpaved: 90 km
Grenada: total: 1,040 km
paved: 638 km
unpaved: 402 km (1996)
Guadeloupe: total: 2,560 km
paved: 965 km
unpaved: 1,595 km (1996)
Guam: total: 885 km
paved: 675 km
unpaved: 210 km
note: there are also 685 km of roads classified non-public, including roads located on federal government installations
Guatemala:total: 13,856 km
paved: 4,370 km (including 140 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,486 km (1998)
Guernsey: total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Guinea: total: 30,500 km
paved: 5,033 km
unpaved: 25,467 km (1996)
Guinea-Bissau: total: 4,400 km
paved: 453 km
unpaved: 3,947 km (1996)
Guyana: total: 7,970 km
paved: 590 km
unpaved: 7,380 km (1996)
Haiti: total: 4,160 km
paved: 1,011 km
unpaved: 3,149 km (1996)
Holy See (Vatican City):none; all city streets
Honduras:total: 15,400 km
paved: 3,126 km
unpaved: 12,274 km (1999 est.)
Hong Kong: total: 1,831 km
paved: 1,831 km
unpaved: 0 km (1997)
Hungary: total: 188,203 km
paved: 81,680 km (including 448 km of expressways)
unpaved: 106,523 km (1998 est.)
Iceland: total: 12,691 km
paved: 3,262 km
unpaved: 9,429 km (1999)
India: total: 3,319,644 km
paved: 1,517,077 km
unpaved: 1,802,567 km (1996)
Indonesia: total: 342,700 km
paved: 158,670 km
unpaved: 184,030 km (1997)
Iran: total: 140,200 km
paved: 49,440 km (including 470 km of expressways)
unpaved: 90,760 km (1998 est.)
Iraq: total: 45,550 km
paved: 38,400 km
unpaved: 7,150 km (1996 est.)
Ireland: total: 92,500 km
paved: 87,043 km (including 115 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,457 km (1999 est.)
Israel: total: 15,965 km
paved: 15,965 km (including 56 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)
Italy: total: 654,676 km
paved: 654,676 km (including 6460 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1997)
Jamaica: total: 19,000 km
paved: 13,433 km
unpaved: 5,567 km (1997)
Japan: total: 1,152,207 km
paved: 863,003 km (including 6,114 km of expressways)
unpaved: 289,204 km (1997 est.)
Jersey: total: 577 km (1995)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Jordan: total: 8,000 km
paved: 8,000 km
unpaved: 0 km (2000 est.)
Kazakhstan: total: NA km
paved: 150,000 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather) (2000)
unpaved: NA km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather)
Kenya:total: 63,800 km
paved: 8,868 km
unpaved: 54,932 km (1996)
Kiribati: total: 670 km (1996)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Korea, North: total: 31,200 km
paved: 1,997 km
unpaved: 29,203 km (1996)
Korea, South: total: 87,534 km
paved: 65,388 km (including 1,996 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,146 km (1999)
Kuwait: total: 4,450 km
paved: 3,590 km
unpaved: 860 km (1999 est.)
Kyrgyzstan: total: 18,500 km (including 140 km of expressways)
paved: 16,854 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather)
unpaved: 1,646 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1996)
Laos:total: 14,000 km
paved: 3,360 km
unpaved: 10,640 km (1991)
Latvia: total: 59,178 km
paved: 22,843 km
unpaved: 36,335 km (1998 est.)
Lebanon: total: 7,300 km
paved: 6,350 km
unpaved: 950 km (1999 est.)
Lesotho: total: 4,955 km
paved: 887 km
unpaved: 4,068 km (1996)
Liberia: total: 10,600 km
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km
note: (there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance) (1996 est.)
Libya:total: 24,484 km
paved: 6,800 km
unpaved: 17,684 km (1996)
Liechtenstein: total: 250 km
paved: 250 km
unpaved: 0 km
Lithuania: total: 44,000 km
paved: 35,500 km
unpaved: 8,500 km (2000)
Luxembourg: total: 5,166 km
paved: 5,166 km (including 118 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1999)
Macau: total: 50 km
paved: 50 km
unpaved: 0 km (2001)
Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of: total: 8,684 km
paved: 5,540 km (including 133 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,144 km (1997)
Madagascar: total: 49,837 km
paved: 5,781 km
unpaved: 44,056 km (1996)
Malawi: total: 16,451 km
paved: 3,126 km
unpaved: 13,325 km (1997)
Malaysia: total: 64,672 km
paved: 48,707 km (including 1,192 km of expressways)
unpaved: 15,965 km
note: in addition to these national and main regional roads, Malaysia has thousands of kilometers of local roads that are maintained by local jurisdictions (1999)
Maldives: total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km; note - Male has 9.6 km of coral highways within the city (1988 est.)
Mali:total: 15,100 km
paved: 1,827 km
unpaved: 13,273 km (1996)
Malta: total: 1,742 km
paved: 1,677 km
unpaved: 65 km (1997)
Man, Isle of: total: 800 km
paved: 800 km
unpaved: 0 km (1999)
Marshall Islands: total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
note: paved roads on major islands (Majuro, Kwajalein), otherwise stone-, coral-, or laterite-surfaced roads and tracks
Martinique:total: 2,105 km (2000)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Mauritania: total: 7,660 km
paved: 866 km
unpaved: 6,794 km (1996)
Mauritius: total: 1,910 km
paved: 1,834 km (including 36 km of expressways)
unpaved: 76 km (1998)
Mayotte: total: 93 km
paved: 72 km
unpaved: 21 km
Mexico: total: 323,977 km
paved: 96,221 km (including 6,335 km of expressways)
unpaved: 227,756 km (1997)
Micronesia, Federated States of: total: 240 km
paved: 42 km
unpaved: 198 km (1996)
Midway Islands: total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
Moldova: total: 20,000 km
paved: 13,900 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, and include, in addition to conventionally paved roads, some that are surfaced with gravel or other coarse aggregate, making them trafficable in all weather)
unpaved: 6,100 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1990)
Monaco:total: 50 km
paved: 50 km
unpaved: 0 km (2001)
Mongolia: total: 3,387 km
paved: 1,563 km
unpaved: 1,824 km
note: there are also 45,862 km of rural roads that consist of rough, unimproved, cross-country tracks (2000)
Montserrat:total: 269 km
paved: 203 km
unpaved: 66 km (1995)
Morocco: total: 57,847 km
paved: 30,254 km (including 327 km of expressways)
unpaved: 27,593 km (1998)
Mozambique: total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (1996)
Namibia: total: 63,258 km
paved: 5,250 km
unpaved: 58,008 km (1997 est.)
Nauru: total: 30 km
paved: 24 km
unpaved: 6 km (1998 est.)
Nepal: total: 13,223 km
paved: 4,073 km
unpaved: 9,150 km (April 1999)
Netherlands: total: 125,575 km
paved: 113,018 km (including 2,235 km of expressways)
unpaved: 12,557 km (1998)
Netherlands Antilles: total: 600 km
paved: 300 km
unpaved: 300 km (1992)
New Caledonia: total: 4,825 km
paved: 2,287 km
unpaved: 2,538 km (1999)
New Zealand: total: 92,200 km
paved: 53,568 km (including at least 144 km of expressways)
unpaved: 38,632 km (1996)
Nicaragua: total: 16,382 km
paved: 1,818 km
unpaved: 14,564 km (1998)
Niger: total: 10,100 km
paved: 798 km
unpaved: 9,302 km (1996)
Nigeria: total: 194,394 km
paved: 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
unpaved: 134,326 km
note: many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled; because of poor maintenance and years of heavy freight traffic - in part the result of the failure of the railroad system - much of the road system is barely usable (1997)
Niue: total: 234 km
paved: 86 km
unpaved: 148 km (106 km of which is access and plantation road) (2001)
Norfolk Island:total: 80 km
paved: 53 km
unpaved: 27 km (2001)
Northern Mariana Islands: total: 362 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km (1991)
Norway: total: 91,180 km
paved: 67,838 km (including 109 km of expressways)
unpaved: 23,342 km (1999)
Oman: total: 32,800 km
paved: 9,840 km (including 550 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,960 km (1996)
Pakistan: total: 247,811 km
paved: 141,252 km (including 339 km of expressways)
unpaved: 106,559 km (1998)
Palau: total: 61 km
paved: 36 km
unpaved: 25 km
Palmyra Atoll:much of the road and many causeways built duringWorld War II are unserviceable and overgrown (2001)
Panama:total: 11,592 km
paved: 4,079 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 7,513 km (2000)
Papua New Guinea: total: 19,600 km
paved: 686 km
unpaved: 18,914 km (1996)
Paraguay: total: 25,901 km
paved: 3,067 km
unpaved: 22,834 km (2001)
Peru: total: 72,900 km
paved: 8,700 km
unpaved: 64,200 km (1999 est.)
Philippines: total: 199,950 km
paved: 39,590 km
unpaved: 160,360 km (1998 est.)
Pitcairn Islands: total: 6.4 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 6.4 km
Poland: total: 381,046 km
paved: 249,966 km (including 268 km of expressways)
unpaved: 131,080 km (1998)
Portugal: total: 68,732 km
paved: 59,110 km (including 797 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,622 km (1999)
Puerto Rico: total: 14,400 km
paved: 14,400 km
unpaved: 0 km (1996)
Qatar: total: 1,230 km
paved: 1,107 km
unpaved: 123 km (1996)
Reunion: total: 2,724 km
paved: 1,300 km (including 73 km of four-lane road)
unpaved: 1,424 km
note: 370 km of road are maintained by national authorities, 754 km by departmental authorities and 1600 km by local authorities (1994)
Romania:total: 153,359 km
paved: 103,671 km (including 133 km of expressways)
unpaved: 49,688 km (1998 est.)
Russia: total: 952,000 km
paved: 752,000 km (including, in addition to about 336,000 km of conventionally paved roads, about 416,000 km of roads, the surfaces of which have been stabilized with gravel or other coarse aggregates, making them trafficable in wet weather)
unpaved: 200,000 km (these roads are made of unstabilized earth and are difficult to negotiate in wet weather) (1998)
Rwanda:total: 12,000 km
paved: 1,000 km
unpaved: 11,000 km (1997 est.)
Saint Helena:total: 158 km (Saint Helena 118 km, Ascension 40 km,Tristan da Cunha 0 km)
paved: 138 km (Saint Helena 98km, Ascension 40 km, Tristan da Cunha0 km)
unpaved: NA km 20 km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension 0 km, Tristanda Cunha 0 km)
Saint Kitts and Nevis:total: 320 km
paved: 136 km
unpaved: 184 km (2000)
Saint Lucia: total: 1,210 km
paved: 63 km
unpaved: 1,147 km (1996)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon: total: 114 km
paved: 69 km
unpaved: 45 km (1994 est.)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: total: 1,040 km
paved: 320 km
unpaved: 720 km (1996)
Samoa: total: 835 km
paved: 267 km
unpaved: 569 km (1983)
San Marino: total: 220 km
paved: 220 km
unpaved: 0 km (2001)
Sao Tome and Principe: total: 320 km
paved: 218 km
unpaved: 102 km (1996)
Saudi Arabia: total: 146,524 km
paved: 44,104 km
unpaved: 102,420 km (1997 est.)
Senegal: total: 14,576 km
paved: 4,271 km
unpaved: 10,305 km (1996)
Seychelles: total: 373 km
paved: 315 km
unpaved: 58 km (1997)
Sierra Leone: total: 11,300 km
paved: 904 km
unpaved: 10,396 km (1997)
Singapore: total: 3,150 km
paved: 3,066 km (including 150 km of expressways)
unpaved: 84 km (2000)
Slovakia: total: 17,710 km
paved: 17,533 km (including 288 km of expressways)
unpaved: 177 km (1998 est.)
Slovenia: total: 19,586 km
paved: 17,745 km (including 249 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,841 km (1998 est.)
Solomon Islands: total: 1,360 km
paved: 34 km
unpaved: 1,326 km (includes about 800 km of private plantation roads) (1996 est.)
Somalia:total: 22,100 km
paved: 2,608 km
unpaved: 19,492 km (1996)
South Africa: total: 358,596 km
paved: 59,753 km (including 1927 km of expressways)
unpaved: 298,843 km (1996)
Spain: total: 346,858 km
paved: 343,389 km (including 9,063 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,469 km (1997)
Sri Lanka: total: 11,285 km
paved: 10,721 km
unpaved: 564 km (1998 est.)
Sudan: total: 11,900 km
paved: 4,320 km