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Iraq Transportation Profile

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Railwaystotal: 2,272 km (2014)

standard gauge: 2,272 km 1.435-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 59,623 km (2012)

paved: 59,623 km (includes Kurdistan region) (2012)
Waterways5,279 km (the Euphrates River (2,815 km), Tigris River (1,899 km), and Third River (565 km) are the principal waterways) (2012)
Pipelines2455 km gas, 913 km liquid petroleum gas, 5432 km oil, 1637 km refined products (2013)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Al Basrah (Shatt al Arab); Khawr az Zubayr, Umm Qasr (Khawr az Zubayr waterway)
Merchant marinetotal: 68

by type: general cargo 1, oil tanker 6, other 61 (2020)
Airportstotal: 102 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 72 (2017)

over 3,047 m: 20 (2017)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 34 (2017)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 7 (2017)

under 914 m: 7 (2017)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 30 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 3 (2013)

2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 (2013)

1,524 to 2,437 m: 3 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 13 (2013)

under 914 m: 6 (2013)
Heliports16 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 4 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 34

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 2,075,065 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 16.2 million mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixYI

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

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