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Bulgaria vs. Greece

Transportation

BulgariaGreece
Railwaystotal: 5,114 km (2014)

standard gauge: 4,989 km 1.435-m gauge (2,880 km electrified) (2014)

narrow gauge: 125 km 0.760-m gauge (2014)
total: 2,548 km (2014)

standard gauge: 1,565 km 1.435-m gauge (764 km electrified) (2014)

narrow gauge: 961 km 1.000-m gauge (2014)

22 0.750-m gauge
Roadwaystotal: 19,512 km (2011)

paved: 19,235 km (includes 458 km of expressways) (2011)

unpaved: 277 km (2011)

note: does not include Category IV local roads
total: 117,000 km (2018)
Waterways470 km (2009)6 km (the 6-km-long Corinth Canal crosses the Isthmus of Corinth; it shortens a sea voyage by 325 km) (2012)
Pipelines2765 km gas, 346 km oil, 378 km refined products (2017)1329 km gas, 94 km oil (2013)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Burgas, Varna (Black Sea)major seaport(s): Aspropyrgos, Pachi, Piraeus, Thessaloniki

oil terminal(s): Agioi Theodoroi

container port(s) (TEUs): Piraeus (5,648,000) (2019)

LNG terminal(s) (import): Revithoussa
Merchant marinetotal: 81

by type: bulk carrier 5, general cargo 15, oil tanker 8, other 53 (2020)
total: 1,294

by type: bulk carrier 165, container ship 6, general cargo 95, oil tanker 379, other 649 (2020)
Airportstotal: 68 (2013)total: 77 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 57 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 2 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 17 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 (2017)

under 914 m: 26 (2017)
total: 68 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 6 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 15 (2017)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 19 (2017)

914 to 1,523 m: 18 (2017)

under 914 m: 10 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 11 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2013)

under 914 m: 9 (2013)
total: 9 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 2 (2013)

under 914 m: 7 (2013)
Heliports1 (2013)9 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 8 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 44

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 1,022,645 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1.38 million mt-km (2018)
number of registered air carriers: 11 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 97

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 15,125,933 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 21.91 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixLZSX

Source: CIA Factbook