FIELD LISTING :: ROADWAYS
This entry gives the total length of the road network and includes the length of the paved and unpaved portions.

Country Comparison to the World

Country | ROADWAYS(KM)
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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: 113,655 km paved: 87,605 km (includes 645 km of expressways) unpaved: 26,050 km (2010)
American Samoa | total: 241 km (2008)
Andorra | total: 320 km (2008)
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: 1,170 km paved: 386 km unpaved: 784 km (2011)
Argentina | total: 231,374 km paved: 69,412 km (includes 734 km of expressways) unpaved: 161,962 km (2004)
Armenia | total: 7,792 km (2013)
Australia | total: 823,217 km paved: 356,343 km unpaved: 466,874 km (2011)
Austria | total: 124,508 km paved: 124,508 km (includes 1,719 km of expressways) (2012)
Azerbaijan | total: 52,942 km paved: 26,789 km unpaved: 26,153 km (2006)
Bahamas, The | total: 2,700 km paved: 1,620 km unpaved: 1,080 km (2011)
Bahrain | total: 4,122 km paved: 3,392 km unpaved: 730 km (2010)
Bangladesh | total: 21,269 km paved: 2,021 km unpaved: 19,248 km (2010)
Barbados | total: 1,600 km paved: 1,600 km (2011)
Belarus | total: 86,392 km paved: 74,651 km unpaved: 11,741 km (2010)
Belgium | total: 154,012 km paved: 120,514 km (includes 1,756 km of expressways) unpaved: 33,498 km (2010)
Belize | total: 2,870 km paved: 488 km unpaved: 2,382 km (2011)
Benin | total: 16,000 km paved: 1,400 km unpaved: 14,600 km (2006)
Bermuda | total: 447 km paved: 447 km note: 225 km public roads; 222 km private roads (2010)
Bhutan | total: 10,578 km paved: 2,975 km (includes 2,180 km of natonal highways) unpaved: 7,603 km (2013)
Bolivia | total: 80,488 km paved: 6,850 km unpaved: 73,638 km (2010)
Bosnia and Herzegovina | total: 22,926 km paved: 19,426 km (4,652 km of interurban roads) unpaved: 3,500 km (2010)
Botswana | total: 17,916 km note: includes 8,916 km of Public Highway Network roads (6,116 km paved and 2,800 km unpaved) and 9,000 km of District Council roads (2011)
Brazil | total: 1,580,964 km paved: 212,798 km unpaved: 1,368,166 km note: does not include urban roads (2010)
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: 3,029 km paved: 2,425 km unpaved: 604 km (2010)
Bulgaria | 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)
Burkina Faso | total: 15,272 km note: does not include urban roads (2010)
Burma | total: 34,377 km (includes 358 km of expressways) (2010)
Burundi | total: 12,322 km paved: 1,286 km unpaved: 11,036 km (2004)
Cabo Verde | total: 1,350 km paved: 932 km unpaved: 418 km (2013)
Cambodia | total: 44,709 km paved: 3,607 km unpaved: 41,102 km (2010)
Cameroon | total: 51,350 km paved: 4,108 km unpaved: 47,242 km note: there are 28,857 km of national roads (2011)
Canada | total: 1,042,300 km paved: 415,600 km (includes 17,000 km of expressways) unpaved: 626,700 km (2011)
Cayman Islands | total: 785 km paved: 785 km (2007)
Central African Republic | total: 20,278 km paved: 1,385 km unpaved: 18,893 km (2010)
Chad | 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)
Chile | total: 77,764 km paved: 18,119 km (includes 2,387 km of expressways) unpaved: 59,645 km (2010)
China | total: 4,106,387 km paved: 3,453,890 km (includes 84,946 km of expressways) unpaved: 652,497 km (2011)
Christmas Island | total: 140 km paved: 30 km unpaved: 110 km (2011)
Cocos (Keeling) Islands | total: 22 km paved: 10 km unpaved: 12 km (2007)
Colombia | total: 141,374 km (2010)
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: 17,000 km paved: 1,212 km unpaved: 15,788 km (2006)
Cook Islands | total: 320 km paved: 33 km unpaved: 287 km (2003)
Costa Rica | total: 39,018 km paved: 10,133 km unpaved: 28,885 km (2010)
Cote d'Ivoire | 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)
Croatia | total: 26,958 km (includes 1,416 km of expressways) (2015)
Cuba | total: 60,858 km paved: 29,820 km (includes 639 km of expressways) unpaved: 31,038 km (2001)
Curacao | total: 550 km
Cyprus | 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)
Czech Republic | total: 130,661 km (includes urban roads) paved: 130,661 km (includes 730 km of expressways) (2011)
Denmark | total: 73,929 km paved: 73,929 km (includes 1,143 km of expressways) (2012)
Djibouti | total: 3,065 km paved: 1,379 km unpaved: 1,686 km (2000)
Dominica | total: 1,512 km paved: 762 km unpaved: 750 km (2010)
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 (2007)
Egypt | total: 137,430 km paved: 126,742 km (includes 838 km of expressways) unpaved: 10,688 km (2010)
El Salvador | total: 6,918 km paved: 3,247 km (includes 341 km of expressways) unpaved: 3,671 km (2010)
Equatorial Guinea | total: 2,880 km (2000)
Eritrea | total: 4,010 km paved: 874 km unpaved: 3,136 km (2000)
Estonia | total: 58,412 km (includes urban roads) paved: 10,427 km (includes 115 km of expressways) unpaved: 47,985 km (2011)
Ethiopia | total: 44,359 km paved: 6,064 km unpaved: 38,295 km (2007)
European Union | total: 10,582,653 km (2013)
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: 1,686 km unpaved: 1,754 km (2011)
Finland | total: 454,000 km highways: 78,000 km (50,000 paved, including 700 km of expressways; 28,000 unpaved) urban roads: 26,000 km private and forest roads: 350,000 km (2012)
France | total: 1,028,446 km (metropolitan France) paved: 1,028,446 km (includes 11,416 km of expressways) note: not included are 5,100 km of roadways in overseas departments (2010)
French Polynesia | total: 2,590 km paved: 1,735 km unpaved: 855 km (1999)
Gabon | total: 9,170 km paved: 1,097 km unpaved: 8,073 km (2007)
Gambia, The | total: 3,740 km paved: 711 km unpaved: 3,029 km (2011)
Gaza Strip | note: see entry for West Bank
Georgia | total: 19,109 km paved: 19,109 km (includes 69 km of expressways) (2010)
Germany | total: 645,000 km paved: 645,000 km (includes 12,800 km of expressways) note: includes local roads (2010)
Ghana | total: 109,515 km paved: 13,787 km unpaved: 95,728 km (2009)
Gibraltar | total: 29 km paved: 29 km (2007)
Greece | total: 116,960 km paved: 41,357 km (includes 1,091 km of expressways) unpaved: 75,603 km (2010)
Greenland | note: although there are short roads in towns, there are no roads between towns; inter-urban transport is either by sea or by air (2012)
Grenada | total: 1,127 km paved: 687 km unpaved: 440 km (2001)
Guam | total: 1,045 km (2008)
Guatemala | total: 11,501 km paved: 6,797 km (includes 127 km of expressways) unpaved: 4,704 km (2010)
Guinea-Bissau | total: 3,455 km paved: 965 km unpaved: 2,490 km (2002)
Guinea | total: 44,348 km paved: 4,342 km unpaved: 40,006 km (2003)
Guyana | total: 7,970 km paved: 590 km unpaved: 7,380 km (2001)
Haiti | total: 4,266 km paved: 768 km unpaved: 3,498 km (2009)
Honduras | total: 14,742 km paved: 3,367 km unpaved: 11,375 km (1,543 km summer only) note: an additional 8,951 km of non-official roads used by the coffee industry (2012)
Hong Kong | total: 2,099 km paved: 2,099 km (2014)
Hungary | total: 199,567 km paved: 76,075 km (includes 1,477 km of expressways) unpaved: 123,492 km (2010)
Iceland | total: 12,890 km paved/oiled gravel: 4,782 km (excludes urban roads) unpaved: 8,108 km (2012)
India | 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)
Indonesia | total: 496,607 km paved: 283,102 km unpaved: 213,505 km (2011)
Iran | total: 198,866 km paved: 160,366 km (includes 1,948 km of expressways) unpaved: 38,500 km (2010)
Iraq | total: 59,623 km paved: 59,623 km (includes Kurdistan Region) (2012)
Ireland | total: 96,036 km paved: 96,036 km (includes 1,224 km of expressways) (2014)
Isle of Man | total: 500 km (2008)
Israel | total: 18,566 km paved: 18,566 km (includes 449 km of expressways) (2011)
Italy | total: 487,700 km paved: 487,700 km (includes 6,700 km of expressways) (2007)
Jamaica | total: 22,121 km (includes 44 km of expressways) paved: 16,148 km unpaved: 5,973 km (2011)
Japan | total: 1,217,128 km paved: 988,536 km (includes 7,803 km of expressways) unpaved: 228,592 km (2013)
Jersey | total: 576 km (2010)
Jordan | total: 7,203 km paved: 7,203 km (2011)
Kazakhstan | total: 97,418 km paved: 87,140 km unpaved: 10,278 km (2012)
Kenya | total: 160,878 km paved: 11,189 km unpaved: 149,689 km note: includes 99 km of urban and other roads (2013)
Kiribati | total: 670 km (2011)
Korea, North | total: 25,554 km paved: 724 km unpaved: 24,830 km (2006)
Korea, South | total: 104,983 km paved: 83,199 km (includes 3,779 km of expressways) unpaved: 21,784 km (2009)
Kosovo | total: 2,003 km paved: 1,883 km (includes 38 km of expressways) unpaved: 120 km (2014)
Kuwait | total: 6,608 km (2010)
Kyrgyzstan | total: 34,000 km (2007)
Laos | total: 39,586 km paved: 5,415 km unpaved: 34,171 km (2009)
Latvia | total: 72,440 km paved: 14,707 km unpaved: 57,733 km (2013)
Lebanon | total: 6,970 km (includes 170 km of expressways) (2005)
Lesotho | total: 5,940 km paved: 1,069 km unpaved: 4,871 km (2011)
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 (2012)
Lithuania | total: 84,166 km paved: 72,297 km (includes 312 km of expressways) unpaved: 11,869 km (2012)
Luxembourg | total: 2,899 km paved: 2,899 km (includes 152 km of expressways) (2011)
Macau | total: 421 km paved: 421 km (2013)
Macedonia | total: 14,182 km (includes 242 km of expressways) paved: 9,633 km unpaved: 4,549 km (2014)
Madagascar | total: 37,476 km paved: 6,103 km unpaved: 31,373 km (2010)
Malawi | total: 15,450 km paved: 6,951 km unpaved: 8,499 km (2011)
Malaysia | total: 144,403 km (excludes local roads) paved: 116,169 km (includes 1,821 km of expressways) unpaved: 28,234 km (2010)
Maldives | 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)
Mali | total: 22,474 km paved: 5,522 km unpaved: 16,952 km (2009)
Malta | total: 3,096 km paved: 2,704 km unpaved: 392 km (2008)
Marshall Islands | total: 2,028 km paved: 75 km note: roads are mostly unimproved (2007)
Mauritania | total: 10,628 km paved: 3,158 km unpaved: 7,470 km (2010)
Mauritius | total: 2,149 km paved: 2,149 km (includes 75 km of expressways) (2012)
Mexico | total: 377,660 km paved: 137,544 km (includes 7,176 km of expressways) unpaved: 240,116 km (2012)
Micronesia, Federated States of | total: 388 km paved: 184 km unpaved: 204 km (2015)
Moldova | total: 9,352 km paved: 8,835 km unpaved: 517 km (2012)
Monaco | total: 77 km paved: 77 km (2010)
Mongolia | total: 49,249 km paved: 4,800 km unpaved: 44,449 km (2013)
Montenegro | total: 7,762 km paved: 7,141 km unpaved: 621 km (2010)
Montserrat | 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)
Morocco | total: 58,395 km paved: 41,116 km (includes 1,080 km of expressways) unpaved: 17,279 km (2010)
Mozambique | total: 30,331 km paved: 6,303 km unpaved: 24,028 km (2009)
Namibia | total: 44,138 km paved: 6,387 km unpaved: 37,751 km (2010)
Nauru | total: 30 km paved: 24 km unpaved: 6 km (2002)
Nepal | total: 10,844 km paved: 4,952 km unpaved: 5,892 km (2010)
Netherlands | total: 138,641 km (includes 3,530 km of expressways) (2014)
New Caledonia | total: 5,622 km (2006)
New Zealand | total: 94,902 km paved: 62,759 km (includes 199 km of expressways) unpaved: 32,143 km (2012)
Nicaragua | total: 23,897 km paved: 3,282 km unpaved: 20,615 km (2012)
Nigeria | total: 193,200 km paved: 28,980 km unpaved: 164,220 km (2004)
Niger | total: 18,949 km paved: 3,912 km unpaved: 15,037 km (2010)
Niue | total: 120 km paved: 120 km (2011)
Norfolk Island | total: 80 km paved: 53 km unpaved: 27 km (2008)
Northern Mariana Islands | total: 536 km (2008)
Norway | total: 93,870 km (includes 393 km of expressways) paved: 75,754 km unpaved: 18,116 km (2013)
Oman | total: 60,230 km paved: 29,685 km (includes 1,943 km of expressways) unpaved: 30,545 km (2012)
Pakistan | total: 262,256 km paved: 189,218 km (includes 708 km of expressways) unpaved: 73,038 km (2010)
Panama | total: 15,137 km paved: 6,351 km unpaved: 8,786 km (2010)
Papua New Guinea | total: 9,349 km paved: 3,000 km unpaved: 6,349 km (2011)
Paraguay | total: 32,059 km paved: 4,860 km unpaved: 27,199 km (2010)
Peru | total: 140,672 km (18,699 km paved) note: includes 24,593 km of national roads (14,748 km paved), 24,235 km of departmental roads (2,340 km paved), and 91,844 km of local roads (1,611 km paved) (2012)
Philippines | total: 216,387 km paved: 61,093 km unpaved: 155,294 km (2014)
Poland | total: 412,035 km paved: 280,719 km (includes 2,418 km of expressways) unpaved: 131,316 km (2012)
Portugal | total: 82,900 km paved: 71,294 km (includes 2,613 km of expressways) unpaved: 11,606 km (2008)
Puerto Rico | total: 26,862 km (includes 454 km of expressways) (2012)
Qatar | total: 9,830 km (2010)
Romania | total: 84,185 km paved: 49,873 km (includes 337 km of expressways) unpaved: 34,312 km (2012)
Russia | total: 1,283,387 km paved: 927,721 km (includes 39,143 km of expressways) unpaved: 355,666 km (2012)
Rwanda | total: 4,700 km paved: 1,207 km unpaved: 3,493 km (2012)
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, Tristan da Cunha 10 km) (2002)
Saint Kitts and Nevis | total: 383 km paved: 163 km unpaved: 220 km (2002)
Saint Lucia | total: 1,210 km paved: 847 km unpaved: 363 km (2011)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | total: 117 km paved: 80 km unpaved: 37 km (2009)
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: 15,000 km paved: 5,300 km (includes 7 km of expressways) unpaved: 9,700 km (2015)
Serbia | total: 44,248 km paved: 28,000 km unpaved: 16,248 km (2010)
Seychelles | total: 508 km paved: 490 km unpaved: 18 km (2010)
Sierra Leone | total: 11,300 km paved: 904 km unpaved: 10,396 km (2002)
Singapore | total: 3,425 km paved: 3,425 km (includes 161 km of expressways) (2012)
Sint Maarten | total: 53 km
Slovakia | total: 54,869 km (includes local roads, national roads, and 420 km of highways) (2012)
Slovenia | total: 38,985 km paved: 38,985 km (includes 769 km of expressways) (2012)
Solomon Islands | total: 1,390 km paved: 34 km unpaved: 1,356 km note: includes 920 km of private plantation roads (2011)
Somalia | total: 22,100 km paved: 2,608 km unpaved: 19,492 km (2000)
South Africa | total: 747,014 km paved: 158,952 km unpaved: 588,062 km (2014)
South Sudan | total: 7,000 km note: most of the road network is unpaved and much of it is in disrepair; a 192-km paved road between the capital, Juba, and Nimule on the Ugandan border was constructed with USAID funds in 2012 (2012)
Spain | total: 683,175 km paved: 683,175 km (includes 16,205 km of expressways) (2011)
Sri Lanka | total: 114,093 km paved: 16,977 km unpaved: 97,116 km (2010)
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: 579,564 km (includes 1,913 km of expressways) paved: 135,444 km unpaved: 444,412 km note: includes 104,705 km of state roads, 433,034 km of private roads, and 41,825 km of municipal roads (2010)
Switzerland | total: 71,464 km paved: 71,464 km (includes 1,415 of expressways) (2011)
Syria | total: 69,873 km paved: 63,060 km unpaved: 6,813 km (2010)
Taiwan | total: 42,520 km paved: 42,078 km (includes 1,348 km of highways and 737 km of expressways) unpaved: 442 km (2013)
Tajikistan | total: 27,767 km (2000)
Tanzania | total: 86,472 km paved: 7,092 km unpaved: 79,380 km (2010)
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: 11,652 km paved: 2,447 km unpaved: 9,205 km (2007)
Tonga | total: 680 km paved: 184 km unpaved: 496 km (2011)
Trinidad and Tobago | total: 8,320 km paved: 4,252 km unpaved: 4,068 km (2001)
Tunisia | total: 19,418 km paved: 14,756 km (includes 357 km of expressways) unpaved: 4,662 km (2010)
Turkey | total: 385,754 km paved: 352,268 km (includes 2,127 km of expressways) unpaved: 33,486 km (2012)
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 (2011)
Uganda | total: 20,000 km (excludes local roads) paved: 3,264 km unpaved: 16,736 km (2011)
Ukraine | total: 169,694 km paved: 166,095 km (includes 17 km of expressways) unpaved: 3,599 km (2012)
United Arab Emirates | total: 4,080 km paved: 4,080 km (includes 253 km of expressways) (2008)
United Kingdom | total: 394,428 km paved: 394,428 km (includes 3,519 km of expressways) (2009)
United States | total: 6,586,610 km paved: 4,304,715 km (includes 76,334 km of expressways) unpaved: 2,281,895 km (2012)
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 (2000)
Venezuela | total: 96,189 km (2014)
Vietnam | total: 195,468 km paved: 148,338 km unpaved: 47,130 km (2013)
Virgin Islands | total: 1,260 km (2008)
West Bank | total: 4,686 km paved: 4,686 km note: includes Gaza Strip (2010)
World | total: 64,285,009 km (2013)
Yemen | total: 71,300 km paved: 6,200 km unpaved: 65,100 km (2005)
Zambia | total: 40,454 km paved: 9,403 km unpaved: 31,051 km (2005)
Zimbabwe | total: 97,267 km paved: 18,481 km unpaved: 78,786 km (2002)