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Railwaystotal: 767 km (2014)

narrow gauge: 767 km 1.067-m gauge (2014)
Roadwaystotal: 15,452 km (2015)

paved: 4,074 km (2015)

unpaved: 11,378 km (2015)
Waterways700 km (on Lake Nyasa [Lake Malawi] and Shire River) (2010)
Ports and terminalslake port(s): Chipoka, Monkey Bay, Nkhata Bay, Nkhotakota, Chilumba (Lake Nyasa)
Airportstotal: 32 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 7 (2019)

over 3,047 m: 1

1,524 to 2,437 m: 2

914 to 1,523 m: 4
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 25 (2013)

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

914 to 1,523 m: 11 (2013)

under 914 m: 13 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 2 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 9

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 10,545 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 10,000 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefix7Q

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

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