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Railwaystotal: 5,690 km (includes 19 km in neighboring countries) (2015)

standard gauge: 3,836 km 1.435-m gauge (3,634 km electrified) (2015)

narrow gauge: 1,630 km 1.200-m gauge (2 km electrified) (includes 19 km in neighboring countries) (2015)

1188 km 1.000-m gauge (1,167.3 km electrified)
36 km 0.800-m gauge (36.4 km electrified)
Roadwaystotal: 71,557 km (2017)

paved: 71,557 km (includes 1,458 of expressways) (2017)
Waterways1,292 km (there are 1,227 km of waterways on lakes and rivers for public transport and 65 km on the Rhine River between Basel-Rheinfelden and Schaffhausen-Bodensee for commercial goods transport) (2010)
Pipelines1,800 km gas, 94 km oil (of which 60 are inactive), 17 km refined products (2017)
Ports and terminalsriver port(s): Basel (Rhine)
Merchant marinetotal: 28

by type: bulk carrier 21, general cargo 3, oil tanker 1, other 3 (includes Liechtenstein) (2020)
Airportstotal: 63 (2013)
Airports - with paved runwaystotal: 40 (2013)

over 3,047 m: 3 (2013)

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

1,524 to 2,437 m: 12 (2013)

914 to 1,523 m: 6 (2013)

under 914 m: 17 (2013)
Airports - with unpaved runwaystotal: 23 (2013)

under 914 m: 23 (2013)
Heliports2 (2013)
National air transport systemnumber of registered air carriers: 6 (2020)

inventory of registered aircraft operated by air carriers: 179

annual passenger traffic on registered air carriers: 28,857,994 (2018)

annual freight traffic on registered air carriers: 1,841,310,000 mt-km (2018)
Civil aircraft registration country code prefixHB

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

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