[Field Listing] [The World Factbook Home]

Highways (Country profile category: Transportation)

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 est.)

Anguilla:
total: 279 km
paved: 253 km
unpaved: 26 km (1998 est.)

Antigua and Barbuda:
total: 250 km (1996 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Argentina:
total: 215,434 km
paved: 63,553 km (including 734 km of expressways)
unpaved: 151,881 km (1998 est.)

Armenia:
total: 15,998 km
paved: 15,998 km (including 7,567 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

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 est.)

Australia:
total: 913,000 km
paved: 353,331 km (including 13,630 km of expressways)
unpaved: 559,669 km (1996 est.)

Austria:
200,000 km
paved: 200,000 km (including 1,613 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1999)

Azerbaijan:
total: 24,981 km
paved: 23,057 km
unpaved: 1,924 km (1998 est.)

Bahamas, The:
total: 2,693 km
paved: 1,546 km
unpaved: 1,147 km (1997 est.)

Bahrain:
total: 3,164 km
paved: 2,433 km
unpaved: 731 km (1998 est.)
note: there is a paved causeway connecting Bahrain to Saudi Arabia

Bangladesh:
total: 201,182 km
paved: 19,112 km
unpaved: 182,070 km (1997 est.)

Barbados:
total: 1,600 km
paved: 1,578 km
unpaved: 22 km (1998 est.)

Belarus:
total: 63,355 km
paved: 60,567 km
unpaved: 2,788 km (1998 est.)

Belgium:
total: 145,850 km
paved: 117,701 km (including 1,682 km of expressways)
unpaved: 28,149 km (1998)

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 (1997 est.)
note: in addition, there are 232 km of paved and unpaved roads that are privately owned

Bhutan:
total: 3,285 km
paved: 1,994 km
unpaved: 1,291 km (1996 est.)

Bolivia:
total: 52,216 km
paved: 2,872 km (including 27 km of expressways)
unpaved: 49,344 km (1995 est.)

Bosnia and Herzegovina:
total: 21,846 km
paved: 11,425 km
unpaved: 10,421 km (1996 est.)
note: roads need maintenance and repair

Botswana:
total: 18,482 km
paved: 4,343 km
unpaved: 14,139 km (1996 est.)

Brazil:
total: 1.98 million km
paved: 184,140 km
unpaved: 1,795,860 km (1996 est.)

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: 113 km (1995 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Brunei:
total: 1,150 km
paved: 399 km
unpaved: 751 km (1996 est.)

Bulgaria:
total: 36,759 km
paved: 33,818 km (including 319 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,941 km (1998 est.)

Burkina Faso:
total: 12,506 km
paved: 2,001 km
unpaved: 10,505 km (1996 est.)

Burma:
total: 28,200 km
paved: 3,440 km
unpaved: 24,760 km (1996 est.)

Burundi:
total: 14,480 km
paved: 1,028 km
unpaved: 13,452 km (1996 est.)

Cambodia:
total: 35,769 km
paved: 4,165 km
unpaved: 31,604 km (1997 est.)

Cameroon:
total: 34,300 km
paved: 4,288 km
unpaved: 30,012 km (1995 est.)

Canada:
total: 901,902 km
paved: 318,371 km (including 16,571 km of expressways)
unpaved: 583,531 km (1999 est.)

Cape Verde:
total: 1,100 km
paved: 858 km
unpaved: 242 km (1996 est.)

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 (1998 est.)

Chad:
total: 33,400 km
paved: 267 km
unpaved: 33,133 km (1996 est.)

Chile:
total: 79,800 km
paved: 11,012 km
unpaved: 68,788 km (1996 est.)

China:
total: 1.21 million km
paved: 271,300 km (with at least 24,474 km of expressways)
unpaved: 938,700 km (1998 est.)

Christmas Island:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Cocos (Keeling) Islands:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Colombia:
total: 115,564 km
paved: 13,868 km
unpaved: 101,696 km (1997 est.)

Comoros:
total: 880 km
paved: 673 km
unpaved: 207 km (1996 est.)

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:
total: 157,000 km
paved: NA km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: NA km (1996 est.)

Congo, Republic of the:
total: 12,800 km
paved: 1,242 km
unpaved: 11,558 km (1996 est.)

Cook Islands:
total: 187 km
paved: 35 km
unpaved: 152 km (1980 est.)

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 est.)

Croatia:
total: 27,840 km
paved: 23,497 km (including 330 km of expressways)
unpaved: 4,343 km (1998 est.)

Cuba:
total: 60,858 km
paved: 29,820 km (including 638 km of expressway)
unpaved: 31,038 km (1997 est.)

Cyprus:
total: Greek Cypriot area: 10,663 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 2,350 km (1996 est.)
paved: Greek Cypriot area: 6,249 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 1,370 km (1996 est.)
unpaved: Greek Cypriot area: 4,414 km (1998 est.); Turkish Cypriot area: 980 km (1996 est.)

Czech Republic:
total: 127,693 km
paved: 127,693 km (including 498 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

Denmark:
total: 71,437 km
paved: 71,437 km (including 843 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

Djibouti:
total: 2,890 km
paved: 364 km
unpaved: 2,526 km (1996 est.)

Dominica:
total: 780 km
paved: 393 km
unpaved: 387 km (1996 est.)

Dominican Republic:
total: 12,600 km
paved: 6,224 km
unpaved: 6,376 km (1996 est.)

Ecuador:
total: 43,197 km
paved: 8,165 km
unpaved: 35,032 km (1999 est.)

Egypt:
total: 64,000 km
paved: 49,984 km
unpaved: 14,016 km (1996 est.)

El Salvador:
total: 10,029 km
paved: 1,986 km (including 327 km of expressways)
unpaved: 8,043 km (1997 est.)

Equatorial Guinea:
total: 2,880 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 2,880 km (1996 est.)

Eritrea:
total: 4,010 km
paved: 874 km
unpaved: 3,136 km (1996 est.)

Estonia:
total: 49,480 km
paved: 10,935 km (including 75 km of expressways)
unpaved: 38,545 km (1998 est.)

Ethiopia:
total: 28,500 km
paved: 4,275 km
unpaved: 24,225 km (1996 est.)

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas):
total: 348 km
paved: 83 km
unpaved: 265 km

Faroe Islands:
total: 458 km
paved: 450 km
unpaved: 8 km (1995 est.)

Fiji:
total: 3,440 km
paved: 1,692 km
unpaved: 1,748 km (1996 est.)

Finland:
total: 77,895 km
paved: 49,853 km (including 473 km of expressways)
unpaved: 28,042 km (1998 est.)

France:
total: 893,300 km
paved: 893,300 km (including 10,300 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

French Guiana:
total: 1,817 km
paved: 727 km
unpaved: 1,090 km (1995 est.)

French Polynesia:
total: 792 km
paved: 792 km
unpaved: 0 km (1995 est.)

Gabon:
total: 7,670 km
paved: 629 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 7,041 km (1996 est.)

Gambia, The:
total: 2,700 km
paved: 956 km
unpaved: 1,744 km (1996 est.)

Gaza Strip:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km
note: small, poorly developed road network

Georgia:
total: 20,700 km
paved: 19,354 km
unpaved: 1,346 km (1996 est.)

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 est.)

Gibraltar:
total: 49.9 km
paved: 49.9 km
unpaved: 0 km

Greece:
total: 117,000 km
paved: 107,406 km (including 470 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,594 km (1996 est.)

Greenland:
total: 150 km
paved: 60 km
unpaved: 90 km

Grenada:
total: 1,040 km
paved: 638 km
unpaved: 402 km (1996 est.)

Guadeloupe:
total: 2,082 km
paved: 1,742 km
unpaved: 340 km (1985 est.)
note: in 1996 there were a total of 3,200 km of roads

Guam:
total: 885 km
paved: 675 km
unpaved: 210 km
note: there is another 685 km of roads classified non-public, including roads located on federal government installations

Guatemala:
total: 13,100 km
paved: 3,616 km (including 140 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,484 km (1996 est.)

Guernsey:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Guinea:
total: 30,500 km
paved: 5,033 km
unpaved: 25,467 km (1996 est.)

Guinea-Bissau:
total: 4,400 km
paved: 453 km
unpaved: 3,947 km (1996 est.)

Guyana:
total: 7,970 km
paved: 590 km
unpaved: 7,380 km (1996 est.)

Haiti:
total: 4,160 km
paved: 1,011 km
unpaved: 3,149 km (1996 est.)

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 438 km of expressways)
unpaved: 106,523 km (1998 est.)

Iceland:
total: 12,689 km
paved: 3,439 km
unpaved: 9,250 km (1998 est.)

India:
total: 3,319,644 km
paved: 1,517,077 km
unpaved: 1,802,567 km (1996 est.)

Indonesia:
total: 342,700 km
paved: 158,670 km
unpaved: 184,030 km (1997 est.)

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 6,957 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

Jamaica:
total: 18,700 km
paved: 13,100 km
unpaved: 5,600 km (1997 est.)

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: 119,390 km
paved: 103,272 km
unpaved: 16,118 km (1998 est.)

Kenya:
total: 63,800 km
paved: 8,868 km
unpaved: 54,932 km (1996 est.)

Kiribati:
total: 670 km (1996 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Korea, North:
total: 31,200 km
paved: 1,997 km
unpaved: 29,203 km (1996 est.)

Korea, South:
total: 86,990 km
paved: 64,808 km (including 1,996 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,182 km (1998 est.)

Kuwait:
total: 4,450 km
paved: 3,590 km
unpaved: 860 km (1999 est.)

Kyrgyzstan:
total: 18,500 km
paved: 16,854 km (including 140 km of expressways)
unpaved: 1,646 km (1996 est.)

Laos:
total: 21,716 km
paved: 9,673.5 km
unpaved: 12,042.5 km (1998 est.)

Latvia:
total: 59,178 km
paved: 22,843 km
unpaved: 36,335 km (1998 est.)

Lebanon:
total: 7,300 km
paved: 6,200 km
unpaved: 1,100 km (1999 est.)

Lesotho:
total: 4,955 km
paved: 887 km
unpaved: 4,068 km (1996 est.)

Liberia:
total: 10,600 km (there is major deterioration on all highways due to heavy rains and lack of maintenance)
paved: 657 km
unpaved: 9,943 km (1996 est.)

Libya:
total: 83,200 km
paved: 47,590 km
unpaved: 35,610 km (1996 est.)

Liechtenstein:
total: 250 km
paved: 250 km
unpaved: 0 km

Lithuania:
total: 71,375 km
paved: 64,951 km (including 417 km of expressways)
unpaved: 6,424 km (1998 est.)

Luxembourg:
total: 5,166 km
paved: 5,166 km (including 118 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

Macau:
total: 50 km
paved: 50 km
unpaved: 0 km (1996 est.)

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:
total: 8,684 km
paved: 5,540 km (including 133 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,144 km (1997 est.)

Madagascar:
total: 49,837 km
paved: 5,781 km
unpaved: 44,056 km (1996 est.)

Malawi:
total: 28,400 km
paved: 5,254 km
unpaved: 23,146 km (1996 est.)

Malaysia:
total: 94,500 km
paved: 70,970 km (including 580 km of expressways)
unpaved: 23,530 km (1996 est.)

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 est.)

Malta:
total: 1,742 km
paved: 1,677 km
unpaved: 65 km (1997 est.)

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: 2,724 km (1994)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Mauritania:
total: 7,660 km
paved: 866 km
unpaved: 6,794 km (1996 est.)

Mauritius:
total: 1,910 km
paved: 1,834 km (including 36 km of expressways)
unpaved: 76 km (1998 est.)

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 est.)

Micronesia, Federated States of:
total: 240 km
paved: 42 km
unpaved: 198 km (1996 est.)

Midway Islands:
total: 32 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Moldova:
total: 12,300 km
paved: 10,738 km
unpaved: 1,562 km (1996 est.)

Monaco:
total: 50 km
paved: 50 km
unpaved: 0 km (1996 est.)

Mongolia:
total: 49,250 km
paved: 1,674 km
unpaved: 47,576 km (1998 est.)
note: much of the unpaved rural road system consists of rough cross-country tracks

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 est.)

Mozambique:
total: 30,400 km
paved: 5,685 km
unpaved: 24,715 km (1996 est.)

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 est.)

Netherlands Antilles:
total: 600 km
paved: 300 km
unpaved: 300 km (1992 est.)

New Caledonia:
total: 5,562 km
paved: 975 km
unpaved: 4,587 km (1993)

New Zealand:
total: 92,200 km
paved: 53,568 km (including at least 144 km of expressways)
unpaved: 38,632 km (1996 est.)

Nicaragua:
total: 16,382 km
paved: 1,818 km
unpaved: 14,564 km (1998 est.)

Niger:
total: 10,100 km
paved: 798 km
unpaved: 9,302 km (1996 est.)

Nigeria:
total: 194,394 km
paved: 60,068 km (including 1,194 km of expressways)
unpaved: 134,326 km (1998 est.)
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

Niue:
total: 234 km
paved: 0 km
unpaved: 234 km

Norfolk Island:
total: 80 km
paved: 53 km
unpaved: 27 km

Northern Mariana Islands:
total: 362 km (1991 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Norway:
total: 90,741 km
paved: 67,602 km (including 128 km of expressways)
unpaved: 23,139 km (1998 est.)

Oman:
total: 32,800 km
paved: 9,840 km (including 550 km of expressways)
unpaved: 22,960 km (1996 est.)

Pakistan:
total: 247,811 km
paved: 141,252 km (including 339 km of expressways)
unpaved: 106,559 km (1998 est.)

Palau:
total: 61 km
paved: 36 km
unpaved: 25 km

Palmyra Atoll:
much of the road and many causeways built during World War II are unserviceable and overgrown

Panama:
total: 11,258 km
paved: 3,783 km (including 30 km of expressways)
unpaved: 7,475 km (1999 est.)

Papua New Guinea:
total: 19,600 km
paved: 686 km
unpaved: 18,914 km (1996 est.)

Paraguay:
total: 29,500 km
paved: 15,000 km
unpaved: 14,500 km (1999)

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 est.)

Portugal:
total: 68,732 km
paved: 59,110 km (including 797 km of expressways)
unpaved: 9,622 km (1999 est.)

Puerto Rico:
total: 14,400 km
paved: 14,400 km
unpaved: 0 km (1996 est.)

Qatar:
total: 1,230 km
paved: 1,107 km
unpaved: 123 km (1996 est.)

Reunion:
total: 2,784 km
paved: 2,187 km
unpaved: 597 km (1987 est.)

Romania:
total: 153,359 km
paved: 103,671 km (including 133 km of expressways)
unpaved: 49,688 km (1998 est.)

Russia:
total: 948,000 km (including 416,000 km which serve specific industries or farms and are not maintained by governmental highway maintenance departments)
paved: 336,000 km
unpaved: 612,000 km (including 411,000 km of graveled or some other form of surfacing and 201,000 km of unstabilized earth) (1995 est.)

Rwanda:
total: 12,000 km
paved: 1,000 km
unpaved: 11,000 km (1997 est.)

Saint Helena:
total: NA km (Saint Helena 118 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA km)
paved: 180.7 km (Saint Helena 98 km, Ascension 80 km, Tristan da Cunha 2.70 km)
unpaved: NA km (Saint Helena 20 km, Ascension NA km, Tristan da Cunha NA km)

Saint Kitts and Nevis:
total: 320 km
paved: 136 km
unpaved: 184 km (1996 est.)

Saint Lucia:
total: 1,210 km
paved: 63 km
unpaved: 1,147 km (1996 est.)

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 est.)

Samoa:
total: 790 km
paved: 332 km
unpaved: 458 km (1996 est.)

San Marino:
total: 220 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Sao Tome and Principe:
total: 320 km
paved: 218 km
unpaved: 102 km (1996 est.)

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 est.)

Serbia and Montenegro:
total: 48,603 km
paved: 28,822 km (including 560 km of expressways)
unpaved: 19,781 km (1998 est.)
note: because of the 1999 Kosovo conflict, many road bridges were destroyed; since the end of the conflict in June 1999, Serbia has had a rapid reconstruction program to either reconstruct bridges or build by-pass routes

Seychelles:
total: 280 km
paved: 176 km
unpaved: 104 km (1996 est.)

Sierra Leone:
total: 11,300 km
paved: 904 km
unpaved: 10,396 km (1999 est.)

Singapore:
total: 3,122 km
paved: 3,038 km (including 150 km of expressways)
unpaved: 84 km (1998)

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 est.)

South Africa:
total: 534,131 km
paved: 63,027 km (including 2,032 km of expressways)
unpaved: 471,104 km (1998 est.)

Spain:
total: 346,858 km
paved: 343,389 km (including 9,063 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,469 km (1997 est.)

Sri Lanka:
total: 11,285 km
paved: 10,721 km
unpaved: 564 km (1998 est.)

Sudan:
total: 11,900 km
paved: 4,320 km
unpaved: 7,580 km (1996 est.)

Suriname:
total: 4,530 km
paved: 1,178 km
unpaved: 3,352 km (1996 est.)

Svalbard:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Swaziland:
total: 2,896 km (1997 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Sweden:
total: 210,907 km
paved: 163,453 km (including 1,439 km of expressways)
unpaved: 47,454 km (1998 est.)

Switzerland:
total: 71,059 km (including 1,638 km of expressways) (1998 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Syria:
total: 36,377 km
paved: 26,299 km (including 877 km of expressways)
unpaved: 10,078 km (1999 est.)

Tajikistan:
total: 13,700 km
paved: 11,330 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
unpaved: 2,370 km (1996 est.)

Tanzania:
total: 88,200 km
paved: 3,704 km
unpaved: 84,496 km (1996 est.)

Thailand:
total: 64,600 km
paved: 62,985 km
unpaved: 1,615 km (1996 est.)

Togo:
total: 7,520 km
paved: 2,376 km
unpaved: 5,144 km (1996 est.)

Tokelau:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Tonga:
total: 680 km
paved: 184 km
unpaved: 496 km (1996 est.)

Trinidad and Tobago:
total: 8,320 km
paved: 4,252 km
unpaved: 4,068 km (1996 est.)

Tunisia:
total: 23,100 km
paved: 18,226 km
unpaved: 4,874 km (1996 est.)

Turkey:
total: 382,397 km
paved: 95,599 km (including 1,726 km of expressways)
unpaved: 286,798 km (1999 est.)

Turkmenistan:
total: 24,000 km
paved: 19,488 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel surfaced)
unpaved: 4,512 km (1996 est.)

Turks and Caicos Islands:
total: 121 km
paved: 24 km
unpaved: 97 km

Tuvalu:
total: 8 km (1996 est.)
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Uganda:
total: 27,000 km
paved: 1,800 km
unpaved: 25,200 km (of which about 4,800 km are all-weather roads) (1990 est.)

Ukraine:
total: 176,310 km
paved: 170,139 km (including 1,770 km of expressways); note - these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel-surfaced
unpaved: 6,171 km (1998 est.)

United Arab Emirates:
total: 1,088 km
paved: 1,088 km
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

United Kingdom:
total: 371,603 km
paved: 371,603 km (including 3,303 km of expressways)
unpaved: 0 km (1998 est.)

United States:
total: 6,348,227 km
paved: 3,732,757 km (including 88,727 km of expressways)
unpaved: 2,615,470 km (1997 est.)

Uruguay:
total: 8,983 km
paved: 8,085 km
unpaved: 898 km (1999 est.)

Uzbekistan:
total: 81,600 km
paved: 71,237 km (these roads are said to be hard-surfaced, meaning that some are paved and some are all-weather gravel-surfaced)
unpaved: 10,363 km (dirt) (1996 est.)

Vanuatu:
total: 1,070 km
paved: 256 km
unpaved: 814 km (1996 est.)

Venezuela:
total: 96,155 km
paved: 32,308 km
unpaved: 63,847 km (1997 est.)

Vietnam:
total: 93,300 km
paved: 23,418 km
unpaved: 69,882 km (1996 est.)

Virgin Islands:
total: 856 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Wallis and Futuna:
total: 120 km (Ile Uvea 100 km, Ile Futuna 20 km)
paved: 16 km (all on Ile Uvea)
unpaved: 104 km (Ile Uvea 84 km, Ile Futuna 20 km)

West Bank:
total: 4,500 km
paved: 2,700 km
unpaved: 1,800 km (1997 est.)
note: Israelis have developed many highways to service Jewish settlements

Western Sahara:
total: 6,200 km
paved: 1,350 km
unpaved: 4,850 km (1991 est.)

World:
total: NA km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km

Yemen:
total: 67,000 km
paved: 7,700 km
unpaved: 59,300 km (1996 est.)

Zambia:
total: 66,781 km
paved: NA km
unpaved: NA km (1997 est.)

Zimbabwe:
total: 18,338 km
paved: 8,692 km
unpaved: 9,646 km (1996 est.)

Taiwan:
total: 34,901 km
paved: 31,271 km (including 538 km of expressways)
unpaved: 3,630 km (1998 est.)

[Field Listing] [The World Factbook Home]