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Bulgaria Transportation Profile

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Railwaystotal: 5,114 km (2014)

standard gauge: 4,989 km 1.435-m gauge (2,880 km electrified) (2014)

narrow gauge: 125 km 0.760-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 19,512 km (2011)

paved: 19,235 km (includes 458 km of expressways) (2011)

unpaved: 277 km (2011)

note: does not include Category IV local roads
Waterways470 km (2009)
Pipelines2765 km gas, 346 km oil, 378 km refined products (2017)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Burgas, Varna (Black Sea)
Merchant marinetotal: 81

by type: bulk carrier 5, general cargo 15, oil tanker 8, other 53 (2020)
Airportstotal: 68 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 57 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 2 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 17 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 (2017)

under 914 m: 26 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 11 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2013)

under 914 m: 9 (2013)
Heliports1 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 8 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 44

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,022,645 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.38 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixLZ

Source: CIA World Factbook
This page was last updated on September 18, 2021

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