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Field Listing :: Roadways
Afghanistan
total: 42,150 km
paved: 12,350 km
unpaved: 29,800 km (2006)
Albania
total: 18,000 km
paved: 7,020 km
unpaved: 10,980 km (2002)
Algeria
total: 108,302 km
paved: 76,028 km (includes 645 km of expressways)
unpaved: 32,274 km (2004)
Angola
total: 51,429 km
paved: 5,349 km
unpaved: 46,080 km (2001)
Anguilla
total: 175 km
paved: 82 km
unpaved: 93 km (2004)
Argentina
total: 231,374 km
paved: 69,412 km (includes 734 km of expressways)
unpaved: 161,962 km (2004)
Armenia
total: 8,888 km
paved: 7,079 km (includes 1,561 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,809 km (2008)
Australia
total: 812,972 km
paved: 341,448 km
unpaved: 471,524 km (2004)
Austria
total: 107,262 km
paved: 107,262 km (includes 1,677 km of expressways) (2006)
Azerbaijan
total: 59,141 km
paved: 29,210 km
unpaved: 29,931 km (2004)
Bahamas, The
total: 2,717 km
paved: 1,560 km
unpaved: 1,157 km (2002)
Bahrain
total: 3,851 km
paved: 3,121 km
unpaved: 730 km (2007)
Bangladesh
total: 239,226 km
paved: 22,726 km
unpaved: 216,500 km (2003)
Barbados
total: 1,600 km
paved: 1,600 km (2004)
Belarus
total: 94,797 km
paved: 84,028 km
unpaved: 10,769 km (2005)
Belgium
total: 152,256 km
paved: 119,079 km (includes 1,763 km of expressways)
unpaved: 33,177 km (2006)
Belize
total: 3,007 km
paved: 575 km
unpaved: 2,432 km (2006)
Benin
total: 16,000 km
paved: 1,400 km
unpaved: 14,600 km (2006)
Bermuda
total: 447 km
paved: 447 km
note: public roads - 225 km; private roads - 222 km (2007)
Bhutan
total: 8,050 km
paved: 4,991 km
unpaved: 3,059 km (2003)
Bolivia
total: 62,479 km
paved: 3,749 km
unpaved: 58,730 km (2004)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
total: 21,846 km
paved: 11,425 km (4,714 km of interurban roads)
unpaved: 10,421 km (2006)
Botswana
total: 25,798 km
paved: 8,410 km
unpaved: 17,388 km (2005)
Brazil
total: 1,751,868 km
paved: 96,353 km
unpaved: 1,655,515 km (2004)
Brunei
total: 2,971 km
paved: 2,411 km
unpaved: 560 km (2008)
Bulgaria
total: 40,231 km
paved: 39,587 km (includes 331 km of expressways)
unpaved: 644 km (2005)
Burkina Faso
total: 92,495 km
paved: 3,857 km
unpaved: 88,638 km (2004)
Burma
total: 27,000 km
paved: 3,200 km
unpaved: 23,800 km (2006)
Burundi
total: 12,322 km
paved: 1,286 km
unpaved: 11,036 km (2004)
Cambodia
total: 38,093 km
paved: 2,977 km
unpaved: 35,116 km (2007)
Cameroon
total: 50,000 km
paved: 5,000 km
unpaved: 45,000 km (2004)
Canada
total: 1,042,300 km
paved: 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 626,700 km (2008)
Cape Verde
total: 1,350 km
paved: 932 km
unpaved: 418 km (2000)
Chad
total: 33,400 km
paved: 267 km
unpaved: 33,133 km (2002)
Chile
total: 80,505 km
paved: 16,745 km (includes 2,414 km of expressways)
unpaved: 63,760 km (2004)
China
total: 3,583,715 km (includes 53,913 km of expressways) (2007)
Comoros
total: 880 km
paved: 673 km
unpaved: 207 km (2002)
Cook Islands
total: 320 km
paved: 33 km
unpaved: 287 km (2003)
Costa Rica
total: 35,330 km
paved: 8,621 km
unpaved: 26,709 km (2004)
Cote d'Ivoire
total: 80,000 km
paved: 6,500 km
unpaved: 73,500 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 (2006)
Croatia
total: 29,248 km (includes 877 km of expressways) (2008)
Cuba
total: 60,858 km
paved: 29,820 km (includes 638 km of expressway)
unpaved: 31,038 km (2000)
Cyprus
total: 14,671 km
Czech Republic
total: 128,582 km
paved: 128,582 km (includes 691 km of expressways) (2008)
Denmark
total: 73,197 km
paved: 73,197 km (includes 1,111 km of expressways) (2008)
Djibouti
total: 3,065 km
paved: 1,226 km
unpaved: 1,839 km (2000)
Dominica
total: 780 km
paved: 393 km
unpaved: 387 km (2000)
Ecuador
total: 43,670 km
paved: 6,472 km
unpaved: 37,198 km (2006)
Egypt
total: 65,050 km
paved: 47,500 km
unpaved: 17,550 km (2009)
El Salvador
total: 10,886 km
paved: 2,827 km (includes 327 km of expressways)
unpaved: 8,059 km (2000)
Eritrea
total: 4,010 km
paved: 874 km
unpaved: 3,136 km (2000)
Estonia
total: 57,016 km
paved: 12,371 km (includes 99 km of expressways)
unpaved: 44,645 km (2008)
Ethiopia
total: 36,469 km
paved: 6,980 km
unpaved: 29,489 km (2004)
Fiji
total: 3,440 km
paved: 1,692 km
unpaved: 1,748 km (2000)
Finland
total: 78,141 km
paved: 50,914 km (includes 700 km of expressways)
unpaved: 27,227 km (2009)
France
total: 1,027,183 km (metropolitan France; includes 10,950 km of expressways)
note: there are another 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2007)
Gabon
total: 9,170 km
paved: 937 km
unpaved: 8,233 km (2004)
Gambia, The
total: 3,742 km
paved: 723 km
unpaved: 3,019 km (2004)
Georgia
total: 20,329 km
paved: 7,854 km (includes 13 km of expressways)
unpaved: 12,475 km (2006)
Germany
total: 644,480 km
paved: 644,480 km (includes 12,600 km of expressways)
note: includes local roads (2008)
Ghana
total: 62,221 km
paved: 9,955 km
unpaved: 52,266 km (2006)
Greece
total: 117,533 km
paved: 107,895 km (includes 880 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,638 km (2005)
Greenland
note: although there are short roads in towns, there are no roads between towns; inter-urban transport takes place either by sea or air (2005)
Grenada
total: 1,127 km
paved: 687 km
unpaved: 440 km (2000)
Guam
total: 1,045 km (2007)
Guatemala
total: 14,095 km
paved: 4,863 km (includes 75 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,232 km (2000)
Guinea
total: 44,348 km
paved: 4,342 km
unpaved: 40,006 km (2003)
Guinea-Bissau
total: 3,455 km
paved: 965 km
unpaved: 2,490 km (2002)
Guyana
total: 7,970 km
paved: 590 km
unpaved: 7,380 km (2000)
Haiti
total: 4,160 km
paved: 1,011 km
unpaved: 3,149 km (2000)
Honduras
total: 13,600 km
paved: 2,775 km
unpaved: 10,825 km (2000)
Hong Kong
total: 2,050 km
paved: 2,050 km (2009)
Hungary
total: 160,057 km
paved: 70,539 km (31,363 km of interurban roads including 785 km of expressways)
unpaved: 89,518 km (2008)
Iceland
total: 12,869 km
paved/oiled gravel: 4,438 km (does not include urban roads)
unpaved: 8,431 km (2009)
India
total: 3,320,410 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2009)
Indonesia
total: 437,759 km
paved: 258,744 km
unpaved: 179,015 km (2008)
Iran
total: 172,927 km
paved: 125,908 km (includes 1,429 km of expressways)
unpaved: 47,019 km (2006)
Iraq
total: 44,900 km
paved: 37,851 km
unpaved: 7,049 km (2002)
Ireland
total: 96,036 km
paved: 96,036 km (includes 423 km of expressways) (2008)
Israel
total: 18,096 km
paved: 18,096 km (includes 146 km of expressways) (2008)
Italy
total: 487,700 km
paved: 487,700 km (includes 6,700 km of expressways) (2007)
Jamaica
total: 21,552 km
paved: 15,937 km (includes 33 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,615 km (2005)
Japan
total: 1,203,777 km
paved: 961,366 km (includes 7,560 km of expressways)
unpaved: 242,411 km (2008)
Jordan
total: 8,002 km
paved: 8,002 km (2007)
Kenya
total: 63,574 km (interurban roads)
paved: 9,273 km
unpaved: 54,301 km
note: there also are 114,226 km of unclassified roads, 2,000 km paved, and 112,226 unpaved, for a national total of 177,800 km (2008)
Korea, North
total: 25,554 km
paved: 724 km
unpaved: 24,830 km (2006)
Korea, South
total: 103,029 km
paved: 80,642 km (includes 3,367 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,387 km (2008)
Kosovo
total: 1,924 km
paved: 1,666 km
unpaved: 258 km (2006)
Kuwait
total: 5,749 km
paved: 4,887 km
unpaved: 862 km (2004)
Kyrgyzstan
total: 18,500 km
paved: 16,909 km (includes 140 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,591 km (2003)
Laos
total: 29,811 km
paved: 4,010 km
unpaved: 25,801 km (2006)
Latvia
total: 69,675 km
paved: 69,675 km (2006)
Lebanon
total: 6,970 km (includes 170 km of expressways) (2005)
Lesotho
total: 7,091 km
paved: 1,404 km
unpaved: 5,687 km (2003)
Liberia
total: 10,600 km
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km (2000)
Libya
total: 100,024 km
paved: 57,214 km
unpaved: 42,810 km (2003)
Lithuania
total: 80,715 km
paved: 71,301 km (includes 309 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,414 km (2007)
Luxembourg
total: 5,227 km
paved: 5,227 km (includes 147 km of expressways) (2004)
Macau
total: 404 km
paved: 404 km (2008)
Macedonia
total: 13,182 km (includes 208 km of expressways) (2002)
Madagascar
total: 65,663 km
paved: 7,617 km
unpaved: 58,046 km (2003)
Malawi
total: 15,451 km
paved: 6,956 km
unpaved: 8,495 km (2003)
Malaysia
total: 98,721 km
paved: 80,280 km (includes 1,821 km of expressways)
unpaved: 18,441 km (2004)
Maldives
total: 88 km
paved roads: 88 km - 60 km in Male; 14 km on Addu Atolis; 14 km on Laamu
note: village roads are mainly compacted coral (2006)
Mali
total: 18,709 km
paved: 3,368 km
unpaved: 15,341 km (2004)
Malta
total: 2,227 km
paved: 2,014 km
unpaved: 213 km (2005)
Mauritania
total: 11,066 km
paved: 2,966 km
unpaved: 8,100 km (2006)
Mauritius
total: 2,028 km
paved: 2,028 km (includes 75 km of expressways) (2007)
Mexico
total: 356,945 km
paved: 178,473 km (includes 6,279 km of expressways)
unpaved: 178,472 km (2006)
Moldova
total: 12,666 km
paved: 12,117 km
unpaved: 549 km (2007)
Monaco
total: 50 km
paved: 50 km (2007)
Mongolia
total: 49,250 km
paved: 2,824 km
unpaved: 46,426 km (includes 1,994 km with gravel surface and 1,874 km with improved surface) (2009)
Montenegro
total: 7,368 km
paved: 4,742 km
unpaved: 2,626 km (2006)
Montserrat
note: volcanic eruptions that began in 1995 destroyed most of the 227 km road system; a new road infrastructure has been built in the north end of the island (2008)
Morocco
total: 57,625 km
paved: 35,664 km (includes 639 km of expressways)
unpaved: 21,961 km (2006)
Mozambique
total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (2000)
Namibia
total: 42,237 km
paved: 5,406 km
unpaved: 36,831 km (2002)
Nauru
total: 24 km
paved: 24 km (2002)
Nepal
total: 17,282 km
paved: 10,142 km
unpaved: 7,140 km (2007)
Netherlands
total: 136,827 km (includes 2,582 km of expressways) (2008)
New Zealand
total: 93,805 km
paved: 61,504 km (includes 172 km of expressways)
unpaved: 32,301 km (2008)
Nicaragua
total: 19,137 km
paved: 2,033 km
unpaved: 17,104 km (2009)
Niger
total: 18,550 km
paved: 3,803 km
unpaved: 14,747 km (2006)
Nigeria
total: 193,200 km
paved: 28,980 km
unpaved: 164,220 km (2004)
Niue
total: 120 km
paved: 120 km (2008)
Norway
total: 92,946 km
paved: 72,033 km (includes 664 km of expressways)
unpaved: 20,913 km (2007)
Oman
total: 42,300 km
paved: 16,500 km (includes 550 km of expressways)
unpaved: 25,800 km (2005)
Pakistan
total: 259,197 km
paved: 172,827 km (includes 711 km of expressways)
unpaved: 86,370 km (2007)
Palau
note: estimated to have 60 km of roads as of 1996
Panama
total: 11,978 km
paved: 4,300 km
unpaved: 7,678 km (2002)
Paraguay
total: 29,500 km
paved: 14,986 km
unpaved: 14,514 km (2000)
Peru
total: 78,829 km
paved: 11,351 km (includes 276 km of expressways)
unpaved: 67,478 km (2004)
Philippines
total: 201,910 km
paved: 21,677 km
unpaved: 180,233 km (2008)
Poland
total: 423,997 km
paved: 295,356 km (includes 662 km of expressways)
unpaved: 128,641 km (2006)
Portugal
total: 82,900 km
paved: 71,294 km (includes 2,300 km of expressways)
unpaved: 11,606 km (2005)
Puerto Rico
total: 26,186 km
paved: 24,877 km (includes 427 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,309 km (2007)
Qatar
total: 7,790 km (2006)
Romania
total: 198,817 km
paved: 60,043 km (includes 228 km of expressways)
unpaved: 138,774 km (2004)
Russia
total: 933,000 km
paved: 754,984 km (includes 30,000 km of expressways)
unpaved: 178,016 km
note: includes public, local, and departmental roads (2006)
Rwanda
total: 14,008 km
paved: 2,662 km
unpaved: 11,346 km (2004)
Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
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, Ascension 0 km, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2002)
Samoa
total: 2,337 km
paved: 332 km
unpaved: 2,005 km (2001)
Saudi Arabia
total: 221,372 km
paved: 47,529 km (includes 3,891 km of expressways)
unpaved: 173,843 km (2006)
Senegal
total: 13,576 km
paved: 3,972 km (includes 7 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,604 km (2003)
Serbia
total: 36,875 km
paved: 31,392 km
unpaved: 5,483 km (2006)
Seychelles
total: 458 km
paved: 440 km
unpaved: 18 km (2003)
Sierra Leone
total: 11,300 km
paved: 904 km
unpaved: 10,396 km (2002)
Singapore
total: 3,325 km
paved: 3,325 km (includes 161 km of expressways) (2008)
Slovakia
total: 43,761 km
paved: 38,085 km (includes 316 km of expressways)
unpaved: 5,676 km (2006)
Slovenia
total: 38,709 km
paved: 38,709 km (includes 579 km of expressways) (2007)
Solomon Islands
total: 1,360 km
paved: 33 km
unpaved: 1,327 km
note: includes 800 km of private plantation roads (2002)
Somalia
total: 22,100 km
paved: 2,608 km
unpaved: 19,492 km (2000)
South Africa
total: 362,099 km
paved: 73,506 km (includes 239 km of expressways)
unpaved: 288,593 km (2002)
Spain
total: 681,224 km
paved: 681,224 km (includes 13,872 km of expressways) (2006)
Sri Lanka
total: 97,286 km
paved: 78,802 km
unpaved: 18,484 km (2003)
Sudan
total: 11,900 km
paved: 4,320 km
unpaved: 7,580 km (2000)
Suriname
total: 4,304 km
paved: 1,130 km
unpaved: 3,174 km (2003)
Swaziland
total: 3,594 km
paved: 1,078 km
unpaved: 2,516 km (2002)
Sweden
total: 425,300 km
paved: 139,300 km (includes 1,740 km of expressways)
unpaved: 286,000 km (2008)
Switzerland
total: 71,384 km
paved: 71,384 km (includes 1,793 of expressways) (2009)
Syria
total: 97,401 km
paved: 19,490 km (includes 1,103 km of expressways)
unpaved: 77,911 km (2006)
Taiwan
total: 41,279 km
paved: 40,843 km (includes 976 km of expressways)
unpaved: 436 km (2008)
Tanzania
total: 78,891 km
paved: 6,808 km
unpaved: 72,083 km (2003)
Thailand
total: 180,053 km (includes 450 km of expressways) (2006)
Timor-Leste
total: 6,040 km
paved: 2,600 km
unpaved: 3,440 km (2005)
Togo
total: 7,520 km
paved: 2,376 km
unpaved: 5,144 km (2000)
Tonga
total: 680 km
paved: 184 km
unpaved: 496 km (2000)
Tunisia
total: 19,232 km
paved: 12,655 km (includes 262 km of expressways)
unpaved: 6,577 km (2006)
Turkey
total: 426,951 km (includes 1,987 km of expressways) (2006)
Turkmenistan
total: 58,592 km
paved: 47,577 km
unpaved: 11,015 km (2002)
Tuvalu
total: 8 km
paved: 8 km (2002)
Uganda
total: 70,746 km
paved: 16,272 km
unpaved: 54,474 km (2003)
Ukraine
total: 169,422 km
paved: 165,611 km (includes 15 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,811 km (2007)
United Kingdom
total: 398,366 km
paved: 398,366 km (includes 3,520 km of expressways) (2006)
United States
total: 6,465,799 km
paved: 4,209,835 km (includes 75,040 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,255,964 km (2007)
Uruguay
total: 77,732 km
paved: 7,743 km
unpaved: 69,989 km (2010)
Uzbekistan
total: 86,496 km
paved: 75,511 km
unpaved: 10,985 km (2000)
Vanuatu
total: 1,070 km
paved: 256 km
unpaved: 814 km (1999)
Venezuela
total: 96,155 km
paved: 32,308 km
unpaved: 63,847 km (2002)
Vietnam
total: 222,179 km
paved: 42,167 km
unpaved: 180,012 km (2004)
West Bank
total: 5,147 km
paved: 5,147 km
note: includes Gaza Strip (2006)
World
total: 68,937,575 km (2008)
Yemen
total: 71,300 km
paved: 6,200 km
unpaved: 65,100 km (2005)
Zambia
total: 91,440 km
paved: 20,117 km
unpaved: 71,323 km (2001)
Zimbabwe
total: 97,267 km
paved: 18,481 km
unpaved: 78,786 km (2002)
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