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Railwaystotal: 3,126 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 3,126 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)

note: includes 1,860 km of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA)
Roadwaystotal: 67,671 km (2018)

paved: 14,888 km (2018)

unpaved: 52,783 km (2018)
Waterways2,250 km (includes Lake Tanganyika and the Zambezi and Luapula Rivers) (2010)
Pipelines771 km oil (2013)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Mpulungu (Zambezi)
Merchant marinetotal: 1

by type: other 1 (2019)
Airportstotal: 88 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 8 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2013)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 80 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 1 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 53 (2013)

under 914 m: 21 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 6

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 8,904 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 75.08 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix9J

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

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