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Railwaystotal: 5,926 km (2016)

broad gauge: 5,926 km 1.524-m gauge (3,270 km electrified) (2016)
Roadwaystotal: 454,000 km (2012)

highways: 78,000 km (50,000 paved, including 700 km of expressways; 28,000 unpaved) (2012)

private and forest roads: 350,000 km (2012)

urban: 26,000 km (2012)
Waterways8,000 km (includes Saimaa Canal system of 3,577 km; southern part leased from Russia; water transport used frequently in the summer and widely replaced with sledges on the ice in winter; there are 187,888 lakes in Finland that cover 31,500 km); Finland also maintains 8,200 km of coastal fairways (2013)
Pipelines1288 km gas transmission pipes, 1976 km distribution pipes (2016)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Helsinki, Kotka, Naantali, Porvoo, Raahe, Rauma
Merchant marinetotal: 274

by type: bulk carrier 9, container ship 1, general cargo 77, oil tanker 4, other 183 (2020)
Airportstotal: 148 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 74 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 3 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 26 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 10 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 21 (2017)

under 914 m: 14 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 74 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2013)

under 914 m: 71 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 77

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 13,364,839 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 957.64 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixOH

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

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