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Railwaystotal: 15,333 km (9,699 km electrified) (2017)

standard gauge: 2,571 km 1.435-m gauge (2,571 km electrified) (2017)

narrow gauge: 1,207 km 1.000-m gauge (400 km electrified) (2017)

broad gauge: 11,333 km 1.668-m gauge (6,538 km electrified) (2017)

mixed gauge: 190 km 1.668-m and 1.435m gage (190.1 km electrified); 28 km 0.914-m gauge (28 km electrified); 4 km 0.600-m gauge
Roadwaystotal: 683,175 km (2011)

paved: 683,175 km (includes 16,205 km of expressways) (2011)
Waterways1,000 km (2012)
Pipelines10481 km gas, 358 km oil, 4378 km refined products (2017)
Ports and terminalsmajor seaport(s): Algeciras, Barcelona, Bilbao, Cartagena, Huelva, Tarragona, Valencia (all in Spain); Las Palmas, Santa Cruz de Tenerife (in the Canary Islands)

container port(s) (TEUs): Algeciras (5,125,385), Barcelona (3,324,650), Valencia (5,439,827) (2019)

LNG terminal(s) (import): Barcelona, Bilbao, Cartagena, Huelva, Mugardos, Sagunto
Merchant marinetotal: 474

by type: bulk carrier 1, general cargo 36, oil tanker 25, other 412 (2020)
Airportstotal: 135 (2020)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 102 (2020)

over 3,047 m: 18

2,438 to 3,047 m: 16

1,524 to 2,437 m: 19

914 to 1,523 m: 26

under 914 m: 23
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 33 (2020)

914 to 1,523 m: 14

under 914 m: 19
Heliports13 (2020)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 21 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 552

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 80,672,105 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1,117,070,000 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixEC

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

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