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Railwaystotal: 7,251 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 5,851 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)

1,400 km 0.600-m gauge for cotton plantations
Roadwaystotal: 31,000 km (2019)

paved: 8,000 km (2019)

unpaved: 23,000 km (2019)

urban: 1,000 km (2019)
Waterways4,068 km (1,723 km open year-round on White and Blue Nile Rivers) (2011)
Pipelines156 km gas, 4070 km oil, 1613 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Port Sudan
Merchant marinetotal: 15

by type: other 15 (2020)
Airportstotal: 67 (2020)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 17 (2020)

over 3,047 m: 2

2,438 to 3,047 m: 11

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 1

under 914 m: 1
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 50 (2020)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 17

914 to 1,523 m: 24

under 914 m: 9
Heliports7 (2020)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 9 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 42

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 269,958 (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixST

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

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