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Country | Roadways (km)
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)
American Samoa | total: 221 km (2007)
Andorra | total: 270 km
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)
Antigua and Barbuda | total: 1,165 km paved: 384 km unpaved: 781 km (2002)
Argentina | total: 231,374 km paved: 69,412 km (includes 734 km of expressways) unpaved: 161,962 km (2004)
Armenia | total: 7,700 km paved: 7,700 km (includes 1,561 km of expressways) (2006)
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: 1,133 km (2002)
Bahrain | total: 3,498 km paved: 2,768 km unpaved: 730 km (2003)
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)
British Indian Ocean Territory | note: short section of paved road between port and airfield on Diego Garcia
British Virgin Islands | total: 200 km paved: 200 km (2007)
Brunei | total: 3,650 km paved: 2,819 km unpaved: 831 km (2005)
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: 38,257 km paved: 2,406 km unpaved: 35,851 km (2004)
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 (2006)
Cape Verde | total: 1,350 km paved: 932 km unpaved: 418 km (2000)
Cayman Islands | total: 785 km paved: 785 km (2007)
Central African Republic | total: 24,307 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: 1,930,544 km paved: 1,575,571 km (includes 41,005 km of expressways) unpaved: 354,973 km (2005)
Christmas Island | total: 140 km paved: 30 km unpaved: 110 km (2007)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | total: 22 km paved: 10 km unpaved: 12 km (2006)
Colombia | total: 164,257 km (2005)
Comoros | total: 880 km paved: 673 km unpaved: 207 km (2002)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the | total: 153,497 km paved: 2,794 km unpaved: 150,703 km (2004)
Congo, Republic of the | total: 17,289 km paved: 864 km unpaved: 16,425 km (2004)
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: 28,788 km (includes 877 km of expressways) (2006)
Cuba | total: 60,858 km paved: 29,820 km (includes 638 km of expressway) unpaved: 31,038 km (2000)
Cyprus | total: 14,630 km (area under government control: 12,280 km; area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 2,350 km) paved: area under government control: 7,979 km (includes 257 km of expressways); area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 1,370 km unpaved: area under government control: 4,301 km; area administered by Turkish Cypriots: 980 km (2006)
Czech Republic | total: 128,512 km paved: 128,512 km (includes 657 km of expressways) (2007)
Denmark | total: 72,362 km paved: 72,362 km (includes 1,032 km of expressways) (2006)
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)
Dominican Republic | total: 19,705 km paved: 9,872 km unpaved: 9,833 km (2002)
Ecuador | total: 43,670 km paved: 6,472 km unpaved: 37,198 km (2006)
Egypt | total: 92,370 km paved: 74,820 km unpaved: 17,550 km (2004)
El Salvador | total: 10,886 km paved: 2,827 km (includes 327 km of expressways) unpaved: 8,059 km (2000)
Equatorial Guinea | total: 2,880 km (2000)
Eritrea | total: 4,010 km paved: 874 km unpaved: 3,136 km (2000)
Estonia | total: 57,016 km paved: 12,926 km (includes 99 km of expressways) unpaved: 44,090 km (2005)
Ethiopia | total: 36,469 km paved: 6,980 km unpaved: 29,489 km (2004)
European Union | total: 5,454,446 km (2008)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) | total: 440 km paved: 50 km unpaved: 390 km (2008)
Faroe Islands | total: 463 km (2006)
Fiji | total: 3,440 km paved: 1,692 km unpaved: 1,748 km (2000)
Finland | total: 78,821 km paved: 50,854 km (includes 700 km of expressways) unpaved: 27,967 km (2008)
France | total: 951,500 km paved: 951,500 km (metropolitan France; includes 10,950 km of expressways) note: there are another 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2006)
French Polynesia | total: 2,590 km paved: 1,735 km unpaved: 855 km (1999)
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)
Gaza Strip | note: see entry for West Bank
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 12,400 km of expressways) note: includes local roads (2006)
Ghana | total: 62,221 km paved: 9,955 km unpaved: 52,266 km (2006)
Gibraltar | total: 29 km paved: 29 km (2007)
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: 2,009 km paved: 2,009 km (2007)
Hungary | total: 159,568 km paved: 70,050 km (30,874 km of interurban roads including 626 km of expressways) unpaved: 89,518 km (2005)
Iceland | total: 13,058 km paved/oiled gravel: 4,397 km (does not include urban roads) unpaved: 8,661 km (2007)
India | total: 3,316,452 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2006)
Indonesia | total: 391,009 km paved: 216,714 km unpaved: 174,295 km (2005)
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: 96,602 km paved: 96,602 km (includes 200 km of expressways) (2003)
Isle of Man | total: 500 km (2008)
Israel | total: 17,870 km paved: 17,870 km (includes 146 km of expressways) (2007)
Italy | total: 487,700 km paved: 487,700 km (includes 6,700 km of expressways) (2005)
Jamaica | total: 21,552 km paved: 15,937 km (includes 33 km of expressways) unpaved: 5,615 km (2005)
Japan | total: 1,196,999 km paved: 949,101 km (includes 7,383 km of expressways) unpaved: 247,898 km (2006)
Jersey | total: 358 km (2002)
Jordan | total: 7,694 km paved: 7,694 km (2006)
Kazakhstan | total: 91,563 km paved: 83,717 km unpaved: 7,846 km (2006)
Kenya | total: 63,265 km (interurban roads) paved: 8,933 km unpaved: 54,332 km note: there also are 100,000 km of rural roads and 14,500 km of urban roads for a national total of 177,765 km (2004)
Kiribati | total: 670 km (2000)
Korea, North | total: 25,554 km paved: 724 km unpaved: 24,830 km (2006)
Korea, South | total: 102,062 km paved: 90,417 km (includes 3,103 km of expressways) unpaved: 11,645 km (2006)
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)
Liechtenstein | total: 380 km paved: 380 km (2007)
Lithuania | total: 79,984 km paved: 70,997 km (includes 309 km of expressways) unpaved: 8,987 km (2006)
Luxembourg | total: 5,227 km paved: 5,227 km (includes 147 km of expressways) (2004)
Macau | total: 384 km paved: 384 km (2006)
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)
Marshall Islands | total: 2,028 km (includes 75 km of expressways) (2007)
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)
Micronesia, Federated States of | total: 240 km paved: 42 km unpaved: 198 km (2000)
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: 1,724 km unpaved: 47,526 km (2002)
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: 17,280 km paved: 9,829 km unpaved: 7,451 km (2004)
Netherlands | total: 134,981 km (includes 2,604 km of expressways) (2006)
Netherlands Antilles | total: 845
New Caledonia | total: 5,622 km (2006)
New Zealand | total: 93,576 km paved: 61,564 km (includes 172 km of expressways) unpaved: 32,012 km (2006)
Nicaragua | total: 19,036 km paved: 2,299 km unpaved: 16,737 km (2005)
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)
Norfolk Island | total: 80 km paved: 53 km unpaved: 27 km (2008)
Northern Mariana Islands | total: 536 km (2007)
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: 259,758 km paved: 162,879 km (includes 711 km of expressways) unpaved: 96,879 km (2005)
Palau | note: estimated to have 60 km of roads as of 1996
Panama | total: 11,978 km paved: 4,300 km unpaved: 7,343 km (2002)
Papua New Guinea | total: 19,600 km paved: 686 km unpaved: 18,914 km (2000)
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: 200,037 km paved: 19,804 km unpaved: 180,233 km (2003)
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 | 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)
Saint Kitts and Nevis | total: 320 km paved: 163 km unpaved: 220 km (2002)
Saint Lucia | total: 1,210 km (2002)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | total: 117 km paved: 80 km unpaved: 37 km (2000)
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | total: 829 km paved: 580 km unpaved: 249 km (2003)
Samoa | total: 2,337 km paved: 332 km unpaved: 2,005 km (2001)
San Marino | total: 292 km paved: 292 km (2006)
Sao Tome and Principe | total: 320 km paved: 218 km unpaved: 102 km (2000)
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 note: roadways in Kosovo listed separately (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: 3,262 km paved: 3,262 km (includes 150 km of expressways) (2006)
Slovakia | total: 43,761 km paved: 38,085 km (includes 316 km of expressways) unpaved: 5,676 km (2006)
Slovenia | total: 38,562 km paved: 38,562 km (includes 579 km of expressways) (2006)
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: 71,298 km paved: 71,298 km (includes 1,758 of expressways) (2006)
Syria | total: 97,401 km paved: 19,490 km (includes 1,103 km of expressways) unpaved: 77,911 km (2006)
Taiwan | total: 40,262 km paved: 38,171 km (includes 976 km of expressways) unpaved: 2,091 km (2007)
Tajikistan | total: 27,767 km (2000)
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)
Trinidad and Tobago | total: 8,320 km paved: 4,252 km unpaved: 4,068 km (2000)
Tunisia | total: 19,232 km paved: 12,655 km (includes 262 km of expressways) unpaved: 6,577 km (2004)
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)
Turks and Caicos Islands | total: 121 km paved: 24 km unpaved: 97 km (2003)
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 Arab Emirates | total: 4,080 km paved: 4,080 km (includes 253 km of expressways) (2008)
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 (2004)
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)
Virgin Islands | total: 1,257 km (2007)
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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