| Railways | total: 29,640 km (2014) standard gauge: 29,473 km 1.435-m gauge (15,561 km electrified) (2014) narrow gauge: 167 km 1.000-m gauge (63 km electrified) (2014) |
| Roadways | total: 1,053,215 km (2011) urban: 654,201 km (2011) non-urban: 399,014 km (2011) |
| Waterways | metropolitan France: 8,501 km (1,621 km navigable by craft up to 3,000 metric tons) (2010) |
| Pipelines | 15322 km gas, 2939 km oil, 5084 km refined products (2013) |
| Ports and terminals | major seaport(s): Brest, Calais, Dunkerque, Le Havre, Marseille, Nantes, container port(s) (TEUs): Le Havre (2,822,910) (2019) LNG terminal(s) (import): Fos Cavaou, Fos Tonkin, Montoir de Bretagne river port(s): Paris, Rouen (Seine) cruise/ferry port(s): Calais, Cherbourg, Le Havre Strasbourg (Rhine) Bordeaux (Garronne) |
| Merchant marine | total: 545 by type: container ship 30, general cargo 50, oil tanker 28, other 437 (2020) note: includes Monaco |
| Airports | total: 464 (2013) |
| Airports - with paved runways | total: 294 (2017) over 3,047 m: 14 (2017) 2,438 to 3,047 m: 25 (2017) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 97 (2017) 914 to 1,523 m: 83 (2017) under 914 m: 75 (2017) |
| Airports - with unpaved runways | total: 170 (2013) 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2013) 914 to 1,523 m: 64 (2013) under 914 m: 105 (2013) |
| Heliports | 1 (2013) |
| National air transport system | number of registered air carriers: 19 (2020) inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 553 annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 70,188,028 (2018) annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 4,443,790,000 mt-km (2018) |
| Civil aircraft registration country code prefix | F |
| Transportation - note | begun in 1988 and completed in 1994, the Channel Tunnel (nicknamed the Chunnel) is a 50.5-km (31.4-mi) rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Strait of Dover that runs from Folkestone, Kent, England to Coquelles, Pas-de-Calais in northern France; it is the only fixed link between the island of Great Britain and mainland Europe |
Source: CIA World Factbook
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