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Afghanistan Transportation Profile

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Roadwaystotal: 34,903 km (2017)

paved: 17,903 km (2017)

unpaved: 17,000 km (2017)
Waterways1,200 km (chiefly Amu Darya, which handles vessels up to 500 DWT) (2011)
Pipelines466 km gas (2013)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Kheyrabad, Shir Khan
Airportstotal: 46 (2020)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 29 (2020)

over 3,047 m: 4

2,438 to 3,047 m: 8

1,524 to 2,437 m: 12

914 to 1,523 m: 2

under 914 m: 3
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 17 (2020)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 1

1,524 to 2,437 m: 7

914 to 1,523 m: 4

under 914 m: 5
Heliports1 (2020)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 3 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 13

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,722,612 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 29.56 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixYA

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

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