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Laos Transportation Profile

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Roadwaystotal: 39,586 km (2009)

paved: 5,415 km (2009)

unpaved: 34,171 km (2009)
Waterways4,600 km (primarily on the Mekong River and its tributaries; 2,900 additional km are intermittently navigable by craft drawing less than 0.5 m) (2012)
Pipelines540 km refined products (2013)
Merchant marinetotal: 1

by type: general cargo 1 (2020)
Airportstotal: 41 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 8 (2017)

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

1,524 to 2,437 m: 4 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 33 (2013)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 9 (2013)

under 914 m: 22 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 1 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 12

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,251,961 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.53 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixRDPL

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

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